Dear Editor,
I do hope that the minister of education's proposal in Parliament concerning student athletes is an attempt to reduce the questionable practices surrounding the acquisition and the maintenance of decent academic and other records of the students in question.
I hope that schools will still be able to lure student athletes to hone both their academic and athletic skills and continue the great tradition that we have as a country.
I am sure if you check, most athletes have poor academic records, like many of our musicians who do well financially. And although education can open doors for all of us, some of us will not do that well and must develop other skillsto depend on.
The problem with this student "buying" is part of a bigger problem where the Ministry of Education still fails to put systems in place to properly document the activities of students and, of course, this minister seems to think that resorting to legislation will curb it. But it may very well "kill" the future and chances of these students.
Overall, we have poor results coming from our education system anyway, and this can be attributed to a poor performing minister who seems to do his best job at functions: public utterances galore. It seems to me that this minister of education is being given a pass on many things at which he is actually failing. There is a report from the auditor general that speaks to contracts being given out by the ministry without the proper procedures being followed that need his attention.
Therefore, the minister needs to make his portfolio more efficient and put measures in place to build and not destroy opportunities for the youth.
Mark Trought
marktrought@gmail.com
Minister 'box bread' from student athletes
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I do hope that the minister of education's proposal in Parliament concerning student athletes is an attempt to reduce the questionable practices surrounding the acquisition and the maintenance of decent academic and other records of the students in question.
I hope that schools will still be able to lure student athletes to hone both their academic and athletic skills and continue the great tradition that we have as a country.
I am sure if you check, most athletes have poor academic records, like many of our musicians who do well financially. And although education can open doors for all of us, some of us will not do that well and must develop other skillsto depend on.
The problem with this student "buying" is part of a bigger problem where the Ministry of Education still fails to put systems in place to properly document the activities of students and, of course, this minister seems to think that resorting to legislation will curb it. But it may very well "kill" the future and chances of these students.
Overall, we have poor results coming from our education system anyway, and this can be attributed to a poor performing minister who seems to do his best job at functions: public utterances galore. It seems to me that this minister of education is being given a pass on many things at which he is actually failing. There is a report from the auditor general that speaks to contracts being given out by the ministry without the proper procedures being followed that need his attention.
Therefore, the minister needs to make his portfolio more efficient and put measures in place to build and not destroy opportunities for the youth.
Mark Trought
marktrought@gmail.com
Minister 'box bread' from student athletes
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