He did say MOST prestige school students don't take lessons, not that they don't take lessons. I have 2 questions for those who seem to think that the education at a prestige school or one not designated as such is similar.
How many of you have experienced "the other side"? It is difficult to speak from a personal view point on something you have never experienced. This is why statistics can become important.
Why is it so important to argue for an equality that does not exist? I don't think the point is that a student who does not go to a prestige school cannot or does not do well, statistically they do not do as well academically than a student who does go to a prestige school. This is not a difficult concept to get around and the exception doesn't negate the rule.
Prestige schools focus on getting island scholarships, non-Prestige schools tend to have a different focus. The results are bound to be different.
Where the stats you use since speaking from the other side can be a difficult thing to do? Prestige schools focus on island scholarships, what does non-prestige schools focus on?
Ask d Open Sholarship winner 2 yrs ago she went Succes Laventille Composite and from Morvant with a mentally ill mother .She got d scholarship from Bishops I guess she only became scholarship material when she enter Bishops
Ok what exactly are we calling the non prestige schools? Are we only referring to the Jr and senior secs? Because if thats what we referring to, then I was always under the impression that those schools focused more on teaching a trade. yes they taught the same subjects that we learnt at our high schools, but at a different level As far as I knew back then they were the only ones that offered CXC at a Basic level as opposed to the General that most of us did. I have a cousin, went five rivers. Did 6 subjects at Basic. Got 3's in all of them. Feel like the greatest thing since sliced bread. Then wanted to argue with me that her 6 "3's" at basic were much better than my 6 "1's" at general. ( This was in the 80's and I believe things are different now so please let me know)
Now don't all yell at me because I never went to either of them so I cant speak from experience. My moms taught at Jr sec and at composite and she used to say in her jr sec classes from day one she would just say "those who here to learn come up front, those who not find youself to the back" She didn't like to do that but the alternative was worse, if she didnt separate the class, then the jokers would make it hard for the more studious ones and nothing would get done. She figured that each class she would be spending half an hour trying to control the jokers and in a 45 minute class, that was not fair to the ones who did their work. She would allow the others to read or do something quietly even talk among themselves, as long as they didnt interrupt the class. She didnt even ask them for homework. But she made it known to them that they would get the grade that they deserved no easy passes in her class, do the work pass, dont do the work, fail. Usually the ones who were there to actually learn (she taught spanish) were the ones who after the 3 years, transferred out and got into a better school, not a senior sec. Years after she would sometimes see some of the ones who didnt want to learn, liming on a corner "miss you could spare a lil change?" Or else see the girls walking down the street belly big and with 2 lil ones in tow. She used to feel sorry for them and teaching in that Junior sec really wore her down. We used to rag her, why not just leave? But she still stayed. Even when the opportunity came along to transfer out to one of the Convents, she turned it down. She wanted to help the ones who somewhere along the line fell into the cracks and ended up in that school, but really wanted to work. And she stayed there until it finally wore her out. The children in the Junior secs today, most but not all well they not easy. What got to her was a young lady who didnt want to listen, didnt want to do the homework and kept hitting another student much smaller than her for no reason at all. The other student was trying to answer some questions and this girl took offence to it and kept hitting her. Moms sent her to the principal, where the young lady used some flowery language. She got suspended, went home and later that afternoon, she and her mom were waiting on the street. And as my moms left they both started to throw some cuss at her. Security guard catch up with them, sent them off, but that was it for moms. She fill out the paperwork, finish that term and left mid school year. 35 years of teaching and thats how it ended.
