Dear Editor,
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will see to full secondary education for all students. Yeah, right!
It is either the prime minister is being disingenuous or he just does not understand education.
Increasing subvention to secondary schools and outlawing ‘mandatory’ auxiliary fees will not correlate to student persistence through age 18.
I expect his advisers will coach him into understanding that, with education, we are dealing with a very complex set of variables of which funding is just one.
Will principals be limited to how the additional funding can be spent? Should it be limited to improving instructional delivery or can these funds be used, in part, to purchase gear for the Manning/daCosta cup teams?
Full secondary education for all is a misnomer if there was ever one. The bottom line is that increased subvention to offset an anticipated loss in income due to the removal of ‘mandatory’ fees is a wash or, call it quits!
As the saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Let’s leave political silliness behind, for now, as elections are over. I need my prime minister to give me a message regarding our education system that I can embrace.
Dr Richard Kitson-Walters
Baltimore United States
k-w@comcast.net
Prime Minister Andrew Holness says he will see to full secondary education for all students. Yeah, right!
It is either the prime minister is being disingenuous or he just does not understand education.
Increasing subvention to secondary schools and outlawing ‘mandatory’ auxiliary fees will not correlate to student persistence through age 18.
I expect his advisers will coach him into understanding that, with education, we are dealing with a very complex set of variables of which funding is just one.
Will principals be limited to how the additional funding can be spent? Should it be limited to improving instructional delivery or can these funds be used, in part, to purchase gear for the Manning/daCosta cup teams?
Full secondary education for all is a misnomer if there was ever one. The bottom line is that increased subvention to offset an anticipated loss in income due to the removal of ‘mandatory’ fees is a wash or, call it quits!
As the saying goes, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Let’s leave political silliness behind, for now, as elections are over. I need my prime minister to give me a message regarding our education system that I can embrace.
Dr Richard Kitson-Walters
Baltimore United States
k-w@comcast.net