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I was made aware of the dysfunctionalism of the ubiquitous 'Universal Secondary Education' over 20 years ago when my mother commented on same with regard to Jamaica.
She noted that the government patted themselves on the back for implementing USE but that the system was producing masses of functional illiterates who came out of secondary school unable to read and write and scarred for life by the experience.
I have also noted the German system where you have guilds where young people are trained to a high standard in practical technical areas such as carpentry precision metal work plumbing , etc.
Aside from the above that should include for St Lucia such important areas as agriculture agri processing bee keeping sustainable fishing sailing and a host of other non academic pursuits relevant to St Lucia. That is where the wasted STEP and NICE money should have gone.
But again we come back to the real Caribbean/St Lucian problem of the useless impractical liberal elites in politics and academia making decisions in our societies.
They would offer the freeness for votes of STEP and NICE rather than the practical long term job training envisaged above.
They would rather shoehorn everyone towards academics so that liberal professors at UWI have an endless stream of gullible students to ensure their tenured salaries and perks and to whom they can pust all their liberal agendas of feminism racism mendicancy and homosexuality.
If too many of the youth went into practical money earning training the academics would lose control so they collude to push only academics.
Our failure in the Caribbean is all about the utter incompetence of our liberal elite leadership.
I do not believe or place great store on universal education. The key is developmental education that places a focus on human capital development. Everything else is 19th century backwardness.
Only those steeped in pedagogy place great value of this largely "chalk and talk" approach socio-economic development. Our North Korean style "Dear Leader" is all about that. That one cannot see the forest for the trees. We have seen better days, and are tired of waiting for "the better days".
Parents should go on strike with this outrage high book cost for their kids and keep the students home.
How can a ordinary family afford this cost?
And why we need new books and not just a expansion to the old ones?
Or is it somebody making a big box on forcing to buy new books.
5:38 AM, what you have said up there is so-o-o-o-o stupid!!!! A strike? Can you teach them what they need to know to pass CXC etc at home? If so, why not just pull your child from school if you can legally?
First of all I assure you that pulling your child from school could be the best thing you do !
When you look at the environment in some of St. Lucia's schools (promiscuity , knives, horrible use of language) and the poor discipline of some of the teachers you could do better for them by home schooling.
Our society is now so ignorant, ill disciplined and vulgar and it is mirrored by what goes on in some schools that schooling your children at home is actually a better option in some cases.
My wife and I home schooled our children in St. Lucia for 3 years and they are now in US schools TOPPING THEIR CLASSES.
It is not ideal in St. Lucia where so many families are the dysfunctional single mother construct and where many of the mothers are themselves not capable of home schooling.
Our problems are so deep and intractable and we weep for Helen
I am indeed surprised to have someone respond in the positive about home-schooling in Saint Lucia. If there can be other cases, then I believe that there is hope to rescue and salvage something from the hopelessness so much depicted in the behaviours of those in leadership positions, in ALL spheres of Saint Lucian life. Please note I said 'leadership positions'. I never said or described the incumbents as leaders. No. There is chasm of difference between wearing the mantle, and behaving as if one understood and then executed, even minimally, the associated needed behaviours and responsibilities.
Even universal free undergraduate university education is a failure in the region. In Barbados for example, that was touted as the greatest exercise in public policy since sliced bread.
It propelled Barbados high up the United Nations HDI index, (pimples, warts, and all). That still did not slay the dragon of unemployment.
Like Saint Lucia, this country is grappling with a bloated public sector payroll, and is in the throes of dealing with employment severance in the public sector.
Do not miss the point, let’s fix it. First we acknowledge, and then take action.
Read this philosophical definition of education by Pring
"It refers to those activities that bring about learning……. worthwhile learning was that which was fruitful in enabling people to adapt successfully to new situations and to identify and deal with problems as they arise…education refers to that learning which in some way transforms how people see and value things, how they understand and make sense of experiences, how they can identify and solve their problems. Educational experiences do not leave people as they were. People become in an important sense different persons".
And I add they become responsible citizens who contribute to family, community and society. It’s really not about obtaining 17 or 16 CXC subjects, this is not education. Know this our education model is all wrong.
-LOGIC:
-how more i learn how more will i know.
-how more i know how more will i forget.
-how more i forget how less will i know
-...why should i learn?? :-)
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