Dear Editor,
Our education is in a serious crisis. Our children are being treated disrespectfully. On Good Friday some of them in the Linden area had to be wandering on the road to find the teacher’s house, in order to present a School Based Assessment (SBA) for CXC. In the last two weeks the children had to struggle to get home after eleven o’clock, after working the whole afternoon and into the night to finish their SBAs, then have them checked at the teacher’s house and finally corrected before they left for home. This is not education; this is advantage.
My judgment is that the SBA should have been finished at the latest in January. The children should have been studying for their exams at this moment. We should not cause our children to suffer because of our negligence.
The McKenzie High School is at the highest level of secondary schools in Region 10 and should be leading in its business development programmes.
Most parents feel enslaved by this and other similar situations. We claim to be an educated nation, but people should wake up. I think the CXC authorities should be approached concerning this SBA situation.
Yours faithfully,
Godfrey Isaacs
