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The world’s most powerful woman is receiving criticism for the way her South African school is being run . The students say they feel like prisoners. Ungrateful bitches! The earth’s deity in human form has graced you with her divine efforts, and you spit in her face! Don’t you realize Oprah chose you over American children, who she feels aren’t worth the effort and are just little sociopaths obsessed with texting their friends with plans to shoot up the school, playing around on Facebook, and having unprotected sex to My Chemical Romance? You’d better get grateful, and you better get grateful stat.
Cellphones and e-mail correspondence are out of bounds during the week, and girls are only allowed to phone their parents at weekends. The maximum number of visitors per pupil is four, and visits have to be approved by the school at least two weeks in advance. Mans said she had to wait at the security gate for half an hour to be signed in when she went to visit her daughter last Sunday.
“It was a nightmare. We had only two hours to see my child. Surely this isn’t a prison or an institution?”
Oprah’s realizing her fondest wish. A little microcosm of the world where she is judge, jury and executioner. Next stop, world domination. And heaven help you if you don’t submit to her will and find the grace within and read the book she tells you to. That school is going to be prison camp #1 on Planet Harpo.
Are the children at school to socialize & visit or are they at school to learn? That’s par for the course of every boarding school I’ve ever heard of.
and this is costing them……? Oh it’s free, as I thought!
Those girls are much appreciative I am sure for the opportunities they have been given. Rules and structure are required to build character and elevate performances. Maybe the Mom’s could step out of the box and realize that this is for the good of the entire family including them.
Ya see this is why a lot of celebrities dont get involved, those mfking parents are looking for ways to sue. Just watch next week the lawsuits should start
This is bullshit! I went to boarding school and yes there are LOTS of rules and tons of structure because its BOARDING SCHOOL! These parents who are complaining can STFU and take your daughter and put her in one of the other bountiful options of schools that they have. Its not like they are being beaten. No phones or texting. Sounds right to me.
Shes just trying to make sure they dont end up like their age counterparts knocked up with aids illiterate at the tender age of 16-17. Call it what you will but its the truth im black and a female so im obviously not racist.
All this after the way she was dogging our American children………Oprah, you do know the word “Karma” don’t you? You preach it faithfully…
Other cultures are much more family oriented that us in the United States. I understand the part about no emailing and texting but if I were a parent I’d like for my child to be able to call me whenever they felt they needed. I’m sure its not been easy being pulled out of your family environment and being put into something that’s completely foreign to you.
I personally think that Oprah started this venture so that she could be in control of everything. As I watch part of the show I felt as if she was playing God with these little girls lives. But she needs to remember that there is a big difference between “a fast tail gul” growing up in 1960 Mississippi. and 12 year old girls from south Africa. I’m from the south and I’m black so I can say that
I think Oprah’s intentions are genuine and good, but this is a new thing. It must be a bit scary because everybody is watching you and waiting for the slipups. Whenever you are venturing into uncharted territory, there are bound to be a few kinks to work out.
Don’t believe the hype! This is not happening. I don’t blame Oprah for not wanting to open a school in the US. Kids here are totally uncultured, bratty and disrespectful, and just want to be little Paris Hiltons and Brandon Davis’. Kids in this country arent very bright either. They want money,games,fashion and fame before they want education. Good move Oprah, keep up the good work. Plus, let “The Donald” dork part with some of his so called money and open up a school. Oh, I forgot, he isnt that generous. He’d rather talk about how rich he is with his retarded wife standing next to him.
While I think the one phone call to the family per week is a bit restrictive, these girls are in boarding school, and before Oprah stepped in, they had no opportunity to get an education. Why do you think it’s an all-girls’ school? Women are not allowed the same privileges that men are and getting an education is one of those things. I think the parents didn’t realize how structured the school would be as they don’t have boarding schools such as ours and it should have been explained in the plainest of terms beforehand so that they could decide if this was the school they wanted for their child. But nothing but kudos should go to Oprah for such a daunting endeavor. She’s attempting to give these girls a better life so that educated women will some day become the norm and not an uncommon sight!
Sasha you should get your facts right, many young girls and women are raped daily by men. South Africa has one of the highest number of rape in the world. Mainly from dumb myth that if they have “sex” w/ a virgin it would rid them of HIV/AIDS and because of stupid evil people. The girls who are raped are not sluts but victims of the country slowness in dealing w/ crimes. African children are not illiterate by choice but because of the system. And yes I am African and I know Africa is messed up. Oprah is doing a good thing and the families must respect that this is the way boarding schools work.
I think comparing US teenagers to African girls as a way to “justify” Oprah’s decision about where to build/run this school is probably the least relevant way to go about it.
to think how that 40 million dollars might have been more wisely spent.
education for the masses rather than the elite.
Oh yes, those girls that were living in huts and shitting in holes are the worlds “elite”.
That’s how you run a boarding school… with rules and restrictions. Otherwise, it would be a called a public school. And these parents should know that… it’s how most boarding schools in many African nations are run. They are just looking for attention.
And $40mil spent on education her in the US would have gone to line the Governator’s pockets. I used to teach and be a Vice Principal, so I know. There is so much corruption and lies in the school system, money never gets where it’s supposed to go. Try running a classroom of 20 3rd graders and teach them reading, math, science, history, art, and PE with no textbooks, pencils, or paper, on a $400 a year budget. You’d be out of pencils in a month!
I’m an African Woman and majority the boarding schools in my country do not allow phones. if they do, your boarding mistress keeps the phone and you get it once or twice a week for an hour and maybe two hours on Saturdays. The few schools that i know of that do allow phones leave a lot to be desired in terms of reputation and the behaviour of their girls. As for visits, my sister is in a boarding school where you can only visit 3 Saturdays a term so all this is actually normal.
An important thing to remember is that parents get a list of school rules and procedures which they are required to SIGN as agreement with the way the school is run! So this is all an attention tactic because they knew all the rules before agreeing for their kids to enrol. If they’re not happy they should just pull their children out.
Finally, as someone who’s grown up in Africa, I think what Oprah has done for one of our nations is commendable and a blessing fron God. I have no doubt most of the people who have been awarded this opportunity really appreciate it because you cannot begin to imagine the alternatives that some of these girls face. The parents who complain obviously have other options which they should take. This is not to say that the parents who don’t complain don’t love their children, they just appreciate this wonderful opportunity.