Now we are going to get into the good parent, bad parent scenario where I can tell you a number of "good" parents, who have had kids who missed the mark due to factors not in their particular household.
This is not a one sided issue, and has to be taken from a number of ends. It is easy to sit and blame parents, because we can. But in reality, the situation should move beyond blaming parents and into making education and social services more responsive to that particular issue. One thing is for certain, pushing the system into a deeper quagmire by NOT providing sensitive services in education, does not solve the problem.
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A plant may grow in a desert,if it is in a good spot,but it grows much better if fertilised and watered.So do young people.Make sure all the family infrastructure is there and a child,"more than likely" will do better scholastically.When a child is prepared,given the proper attitude and support it needs he or she,will exhaust or at least utilise offered education,watever the quality of such may be.I..do not see that preparation or parental attitude in our "me-me,"selfish society,where too much parenting is left to schools!
You my friend,may be educated,but your are only a focused thinker,I feel you lack either a linear thought process,or a talent for predicting the outcome of sequential planning.A better educational system? Absolutely,but first we need to better utilise wa we have.Adding more wood to an already smoldering fire rarely ignites it.:sailing:


That's just the thing. That has nothing to do with education, it has to do with economics and living and to a greater extent, socio-economic issues.
You can not expect a single mother, with 3 kids, to give maximum coverage to all of them.

You can not expect a blue collar family, with mother and father along with 3 kids, to give maximum coverage to all of them; especially if the household income is under $600.00 a week; with that, the inability to effectively time manage, something education should have taught them in this fast moving age. It is a cycle and it has to be corrected through education and the social services.

That is why I said you are getting into other issues, which needs to be addressed also, but, there is alot within education, we can do to help the situation bearing in mind the socio-economic residuals. We can do alot better in education, trust me.

Alot of kids, particularly in the public schools, suffer from learning disabilities like dislexia for example. Do our educators have the expertise to identifiy these type of students in the classrooms? Or are these kids just passed off as dumb and lazy? Another angle the MOE needs to approach.

Alot of kids, particularly in the public schools, suffer from learning disabilities like dislexia for example. Do our educators have the expertise to identifiy these type of students in the classrooms? Or are these kids just passed off as dumb and lazy? Another angle the MOE needs to approach.

Shouldn't a caring parent wit even a remedial education, recognise their child is slow and ask why?:confused: :confused:

BTW/I am one of the few who feels that "attention deficit syndrome" is most often a behavioral problem,not a disability.

Shouldn't a caring parent wit even a remedial education, recognise their child is slow and ask why?:confused: :confused:
BTW/I am one of the few who feels that "attention deficit syndrome" is most often a behavioral problem,not a disability.


A parent 'should' be able to recognise their child has a learning disability, many of them do but they fail to admit it. Many parents are in denial and believe that their children will 'grow' out of their slow learning but they never do. Yes your absolutely right, many kids suffer from ADD, ADHD, and other learning disabilities that can be caused by alot of things such as fetal alcohol syndrome. Children should be properly examined both by Public and Private schools to identify psychological stability and performance so that such disorders can be discovered and treated. We have a long way to go but we need to act before its to late, or is it?

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The article puports that the national average for the bahamas is actually F and that it is reported as D only becuase the private schools helped to boost this average. http://www.thebahamasguide.com/facts/education.htm




What was the average under the GCE? Including the majority of students who never got to take any?

How do students with less that 5 a's B's & C's actually perform in college. I knows many dat done werry vell. (Might go myselves) L O L