This is part of the continuing effort to make St. Mary's college the preeminent secondary school in st. Lucia. The principal must be commended for taking advantage of the Prime Minister presence at the graduation ceremony to ask for the IT equipment.
Perhaps other school principals should try to cultivate similar relationships with private sector institutions and NGOs that will bring about similar benefits to their schools.
I think the objective should be to ensure universal access to IT at secondary schools, not the gimmick of a laptop for every child. We have yet to provide essential text books for every child. Though there are lots of curriculum/ learning and online materials that can be provided for, I still gather that textbooks aren't going anywhere for a while. If children all do mathematics and english, shouldn't we ensure at least these text books are made available free or subsidized, at least. IT Labs in every school are a must and an expansion of the IT curriculum is a must. A laptop for every child sounds nice and is being promoted in some African and developing countries but is in my opinion the wrong thrust.
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Mr. Chou,
Why didn't you examine all schools in Saint Lucia and make your donation to the one which was most deficient in IT equipment?
This is part of the continuing effort to make St. Mary's college the preeminent secondary school in st. Lucia. The principal must be commended for taking advantage of the Prime Minister presence at the graduation ceremony to ask for the IT equipment.
Perhaps other school principals should try to cultivate similar relationships with private sector institutions and NGOs that will bring about similar benefits to their schools.
How many graduation ceremonies did the Prime Minister attend?
How many did your messiah Kenny attended?
Anonymous #'s 2 & 4 ...must everything be political...come on, please lets us rise above that..
Sorry, i mean #'s 3 & 4 (not #2)
I think the objective should be to ensure universal access to IT at secondary schools, not the gimmick of a laptop for every child. We have yet to provide essential text books for every child. Though there are lots of curriculum/ learning and online materials that can be provided for, I still gather that textbooks aren't going anywhere for a while. If children all do mathematics and english, shouldn't we ensure at least these text books are made available free or subsidized, at least. IT Labs in every school are a must and an expansion of the IT curriculum is a must. A laptop for every child sounds nice and is being promoted in some African and developing countries but is in my opinion the wrong thrust.
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