Dear Editor,
It’s my firm belief that in the next few years social workers will have their work cut out when it comes to the automatic promotion policy of the Ministry of Education, if we have not already seen the fruits of such a policy.
The product of such a policy can result in a poor cognitive level among our young people.
These same young people will be stealing car mirrors, begging consumers as they exit the supermarkets and be the touts at the city bus parks. We already see the behaviour of some of our school-age youths in our streets. Criminal actives can be attractive to youths, and from what is reported the age group involved appears to be getting younger daily
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There must be an urgent review of such a policy if we intend to save this generation. I call upon all right-thinking Guyanese to resist this policy for this nation’s survival. If we dare to remove the old landmark that once kept us a nation, we will open the floodgates to a set of social problems that we can ill afford.
In my book the headmaster, Mr Cleveland Thomas from Christianburg Wismar Secondary School in Linden is a hero because he stood up for what he knew was right.
Yours faithfully,
Lorex Edwards
