Dear Editor,
The extension of the years in school is going to create a space deficit in many schools. In schools where infrastructural arrangements are not ‘up to scratch’, they are going to feel the new development in a most agonising fashion. The seating capacity of many schools is in a dismal state. It is going to create a much more serious problem with the holding back of fifth formers for two more years.
Additionally, some schools are not going to catch on to the new development plan and the students are the ones who are going to be stifled in the process. Consequently, a delay in the growth curve of many students who are desirous of advancement may well occur.
I am appealing to Minister of Education Senator Ruel Reid to take a proactive look into the matter and find ways and means of straightening this problem urgently. This groundbreaking initiative, without preparation, is going to be counterproductive. We can’t afford for this initiative to be a failure.
If we are not putting productive policies in place to replace the previous ones, I doubt that we are travelling down the right stream. We must put viable policies in place to counter the previous non-proficient ones. We need to foster a type of dynamism which will ensure that we are moving from Third World to first.
We don’t want a system with schoolchildren outside of classrooms. I do hope it will work.
Paris Taylor
Greater Portmore
paristaylor82@hotmail.com
The extension of the years in school is going to create a space deficit in many schools. In schools where infrastructural arrangements are not ‘up to scratch’, they are going to feel the new development in a most agonising fashion. The seating capacity of many schools is in a dismal state. It is going to create a much more serious problem with the holding back of fifth formers for two more years.
Additionally, some schools are not going to catch on to the new development plan and the students are the ones who are going to be stifled in the process. Consequently, a delay in the growth curve of many students who are desirous of advancement may well occur.
I am appealing to Minister of Education Senator Ruel Reid to take a proactive look into the matter and find ways and means of straightening this problem urgently. This groundbreaking initiative, without preparation, is going to be counterproductive. We can’t afford for this initiative to be a failure.
If we are not putting productive policies in place to replace the previous ones, I doubt that we are travelling down the right stream. We must put viable policies in place to counter the previous non-proficient ones. We need to foster a type of dynamism which will ensure that we are moving from Third World to first.
We don’t want a system with schoolchildren outside of classrooms. I do hope it will work.
Paris Taylor
Greater Portmore
paristaylor82@hotmail.com