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kp posted:
caribny posted:
kp posted:

This is true Dictatorship, now they want to limit ones ability to learn.

Learn what? How to pass exams.  Seriously.  School is from 8-3. Extra curricular is supposed to be from 3-7.  Rather than engaging in character building activities, that will provide them with life skills that will be critical to their success, they then go to extra lessons.

The teachers need to cut this extra lessons racket.  Only kids with particular challenges in a subject area ought to be engaged in this.

Someone who is educated would not make such statement, because they know how important education is in their success in life. A good example is the Silicone Valley it is dominated with highly educated Chinese and Indians. The talk of character building and life skills are usually fed by the parents and family circle, maybe other races don't have that benefit. I have two kids and they are both highly educated but along the way they engage in sports and other social activities. If the youths in Guyana were educated ,one they will be gainfully employed, secondly, they would not sit back and allow any and all ignorant government control them.As for extra lessons, if a family has the economic means, then they should be able to give their children that extra boost, it is not just a pass mark, but marks that will enable one to get a scholarship at a top university. Life is a competition.only the cream rises at the top.

I believe about 70 of the Phds in this country are earned by foreigners.  Americans get most of the Phds in social science rather than the natural sciences.  The nerds are ones in high demand in America's hi-tech companies. There is a call for American students to concentrate more on the sciences. There is a reason why

Billy Ram Balgobin
Bibi Haniffa posted:

 

I do agree with your point on extracurricular activities in that students do not participate in sports, drama, etc, which is an essential component of a rounded education.

However, in order to compete with the other Caribbean nations whose best . 

Other Caribbean nations have kids who take 10 CXC, NOT 20.

If Guyana wants to compete with the rest of CARICOM they need to do better than less than 30% passes in Math. 

In fact Jamaica has pass rates that are below the CXC average, yet BETTER than Guyana.  And as you can see from their Olympics performance, sports is highly emphasized in Jamaica, as are vocational subjects.  In fact their U-Tech is highly regarded for the high caliber of training of its technicians.

Maybe if the teachers spent less time trolling for extra lessons, and more time actually teaching, the pass rates would improve!

It makes no sense for 5 kids to get awards for 20 subjects, while the remaining 99% perform below satisfactory levels.

FM
Billy Ram Balgobin posted:
  The nerds are ones in high demand in America's hi-tech companies. There is a call for American students to concentrate more on the sciences. There is a reason why

Here is how it goes.  The jocks start up companies, become billionaires, and then hire the nerds to do the work.  They then tell the nerds that they lack managerial potential so the nerds remain the slaves.

FM
Bibi Haniffa posted:
 

Hold it deh.  Frank Anthony's daughter got 18 As. Speaks more than one language - I think 3 but not sure. Is a champion swimmer and a professionally trained dancer.  Don't hold our students down. 

 

Good for her.  Now tell us about the others who got 20 As, and cannot do anything, apart from studying.

Note that she is a child of privilege, and her father will insist that she gets exposure. 

The child of parents, who lack an understanding of this, will spend all day studying, as their silly parents will think that this guarantees their success.  Then when they hear that their kid didn't get entry into the school of their choice, as others, who are more rounded got preference, then they will wail.

If a nerd develops an application, but has no interpersonal skills, a shrewder person will steal his app, fund it, and then hire him as the slave.  The silly nerd then get a nervous break down!

FM
yuji22 posted:

All of the Ministers in this administration are acting like a bunch of clueless jackasses.

Let every student decide his or her future and write as many subjects as they deem necessary and capable of.

No jackass Politicians should tell parents and students what to do with their educational path.

So why don't we shut down all the schools, and let the parents teach them.

Out it this way, the time spent commuting can mean even more time to study.   The ability to work in teams, manage projects, and develop interpersonal skills doesn't matter to you, so why bother with school.

Then a Steve Job types steals their ideas and enslaves them.

FM

Carib and the PNC regime just come up with this idea of limiting ones ability to achieve higher academic standard. The rest of the world is encouraging their citizens to study hard and aim for the stars, but no let's keep the Guyanese kids in this little box, Soon they are going to ban the internet and television, those dumb Boxes would teach the kids too much, let's be like North Korea. High school drop outs ,such as Bill Gates are one in a Billion ,they are born gifted, just like Caribj, he is one of a kind, gifted no!!!

K
kp posted:

 The rest of the world is encouraging their citizens to study hard and aim for the stars,

Try getting into an Ivy with only good grades.

NOT happening.  This is the direction that the world is going, and only backward people like you don't understands that a B+ kid with strong extra curricular activity and life skills, will sooner get in than an A kid, who can only ramble about all the extra lessons that he engaged in, and how he had no time for anything else.

Obviously your goal is CUNY, because that is as far as you will go!

FM

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