Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Dumbed to Dormant
In the 1970s Michael Manley made the Schools free. Primary to University were free and entrance was based on merit. Those who wanted their children to attend particular schools could pay for the privilege, most would accept where their children were sent.
As heretofore schools were for the upperclass, aspiring middle, and as teaching was a decent profession, (and parents who sent their kids were often as well educated if not more educated than the teachers) actual teaching went on.
Those who were out of school could attend Jamal classes and be taught to read and write.
The PNP had 'political education' classes so that the members would know what the Party stood for, what they were actually supporting.
Although Michael might have thought an educated population would insure he would remain in office he never contemplated the underthrow by the CIA and Seaga's willingness to engage in guerilla war.
The PNP lost and slowly the educational system was dismantled. The pay for teachers which had been respectable began to fall to the extent that being an administrative assistant in an office paid better. Good teachers were headhunted by private industry.
As qualifications for everything went up, teaching stayed down. Very few persons are in the classroom who have attended University, save those who teach at University who graduated last year.
Many of the Department Heads are idiots. The moron in the English Department encourages other people to speak patois. The one in the Computer Science Department has to call in outside agencies to fix the computers where at a Computer training centre the students fix the computers.
By 1990 the population is stupider today than in the 50s. In the 50s, people who went to 'All Age' schools didn't leave until they could read. It is not surprising to see old men who never saw the inside of a High School able to read every word in a newspaper and discuss the day's affairs with knowledge, while the schooler in uniform not only can't read but doesn't comprehend what he reads.
By 2000 the statistics reveal that less students pass the easier CXC exams than those who passed the G.C.E. (set in England) in 1970. In fact, in 1990 the pass rate of the English G.C.E. was 23%, having fallen significantly for ten years. In
2000 the pass rate of English CXC was 17%.
The language has moved from English with a few pidgen expressions and misuse of tense to a gibberish which is almost incomprehensible.
Not only can't the average Jamaican speak English, he can't understand it. This enables them not to be able to follow instructions given in English to their own detriment.
Because of the wholesale dumbing down, the Bruce Golding government is enabled to lie, deceive and bring a country from a reasonable position as developing to a failed state, a failed narco state, soon to become a rogue state.
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