No Chair, they are not on my hair at all. The point with the GEC certificate is -. I have explained this over and over again. It is to provide a standardised assessment at the end of basic education, so if they are not - it is not intended for them to leave. We already have 3,4 million of them who have left even before the certificate comes. There is nothing about it being an exit. So say if they leave, what do I do with them - they are not supposed to leave.
The intention - I want to repeat, is to make sure that we give a standardised assessment paper in line with international trends, that by the time you finish your basic education we have to recognise and acknowledge that you have finished that phase, but you are not supposed to leave.
I have said to Marchesi - maybe because she is young, when I grew up I had a Junior Certificate, JC, I did not leave; the certificate does not say leave. I had a Standard Six Certificate, I did not leave. The whole idea is to benchmark at a certain level so that as a country you know as we know in matric that an-A in Tzaneen is the same as an-A in KwaZulu-Natal. Even the exit of basic education is to give the standardisation; there is nothing to do with exit, markets and other things. It is not there, it has nothing to do with that.