GTAngler posted:I don't know how familiar you are with the education system in Guyana, particularly in Georgetown. Most of those students that are excelling are taking lessons and sometimes from the same teachers. The level of public school education has dropped. Teachers, and I am generalizing here, teach the minimum and make money on the side. Even the private school students are taking lessons but to a lesser degree. This is coming from friends and people living there. What the Government needs to do is what they used to do. Have evaluators sit in classrooms.
I am familiar with the extra lessons syndrome. I happen to come from a line of educators. I will tell you that first and foremost, if the level of education in the public school has dropped, the blame should be laid at the feet of the govt, the ministry of education for not holding the teachers accountable in a result oriented manner, and loosely enforcing curriculum. The teachers can be held accountable, however with the pay that they receive they will invariably quit should pressure be applied. The govt in essence is shifting the cost of educating the kids in the public school system back to the parents via these extra lessons.