And, comrade education minister just confirms that few learns anything after so many years enrollment in government's schools, yes, no- and the other 54% either don't go on earn paycheques, or the couple who do are mostly paid at minimum wage pay scale wage levels....... maybe students lawyers can offer defense that it's government's bad teaching fault that we are not in financial position repay student loans, yes, no

Sad thing, the Haitian man who works with me for a fair wage but lower than any school leaver would accept, he is multi lingual, literate, a man of thought and supporting a family. He believes in the sanctity of marriage and has never bothered with stepping outside those vows to produce unwanted outside children, he feels that is wrong but has empathy for the unwanted progeny and works to assist them to give their lives worth and value to themselves. Let's take this a step further. He teaches Bahamian kids how to read and write in English. How to construct thought and face the world with open eyes and show pride in achievement - not slop around with gangs and stupid people. If he can come here and achieve this, why can't others - Bahamians - remove themselves from the selfish blanket under which they hide to do something constructive for their OWN country.

Well Truebahamian, seems that the Haitian who works for you is an angel! I have retired over 20 years ago, and during my working years and after retiring, I have met some men who really seemed to have been angels or someone our Father in heaven sent to warn/encourage me!

I honestly believe that over the years, most of these problems we are suffering from could have been corrected if they had been dealt with long ago. But our leaders seem to take forever to try and deal with the issues burdening us. When I was a teenager there were NO gangs!!! If a single person stood up waiting on the side of one of the main streets, in less than a minute a police would rush beside him and shout, "MOVE ON, NO LOITERING!!!"

FOLLOWING THE COLONIAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM.........After repeatedly attempts of the the Minister has failed to better the education system of da nation highly publivized should offer his resignation.

What a great job the parents and teachers of our country do. LOL. I give them all a fail. Teachers pay should be tied to how well they produce in the class room, not this entitlement attitude of " I been here fa so long dat I should get pay good"

Within two years 90% will have a child, 40% will have a job at a fast food restaurant and 100% will be complaining about what the government should be doing for them!

Pindling is somewhere grinning right now. His 1967 Animal Farm experiment worked like a dream ......... For 25 years, he presided over his dumbed down fiefdom:

**CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING**
.................... he closed down the Old GHS .............. made all the new "secondary schools" clones of each other.......... encouraged all Bahamians to get an "office job" .................got rid of the competent white ex-pats in favour of black ex-pats........... closed down the SS Teachers' College ............. lowered the testing standards of BJC............... got rid of GCE O'Levels ............ created the seven-point pass scale for a bogus national exam (BGCSE) ............ encouraged social promotion from Grade 1 to 12 ............. invested very little in BTVI ................. Chose PEPs to run the schools & MOE ............... Kept COB on Government stipends ............. Funded private schools for his "friends, families & lovers" ............... Refused to seriously revamp the school year or curriculum ................. kept teachers pay scales one notch above the school secretaries .............. and NO PM or Minister of Education since Pindling has had the guts to fundamentally reform the educational system.

...ya definitely knows !!!!!!!.......And the Teachers Union , agent for change of decades of betterment.......is the continuous push... priority....Agenda...on da eradication of mold in da school buildings walls....

Spot on bro....no one could have said it better!

Without the dumbing down policies first put in place by Poodling and later refined and perfected by Ingraham, Christie and now Minnis, none of the current MPs sitting in the HOA would have ever been elected. Only dumbed down voters ever vote for corrupt greedy buffoons!

This man giving Bahamian children a bad impression, from since he became the minister of education.
He keeps complaining about situations surrounding the students, but all students are not book smart.

What happen to the vocational classes for students who are not test worthy?

So create programs that the ones failing can have a trade, upon leaving school.

Stop putting things like this in the public domain, & to correct your errors.

We are not talking about astrophysics here! Reading, writing, arithmetic and the ability to understand is basic and required in ALL fields of training. The ability to do two out of the four is sorely lacking in many young people I come into contact with!

And all the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of our teachers union(s) and the Gubmint them for being the largest group of Apathetic Bahamians of all.... really if this was pre Bahamas 1970 whatever people would just assume racism was involved because the treatment of one group by the other is so bad that it appears intentional...... less articles more doing people please

HIGHEST NATIONAL FAILURE...!!!!!!!!......largest use of taxpayers money engineering national failure on many fronts....Condemning youths to failure....Condemning national growth of the nation.....Codemning lessening GNP.......Condemning nation to increased crime...Poverty..lawlessness... misery....hopelessness...babies cryin ...lack of employmenr lack of education levels...Condemning nation failing in comparison to other nations......goes on an on....the repeated failure of the educating of nation's children....ESSENTIALLY...building house wid .......failing poor foundation....muchless repair those whatever exists forefathers/mothers built.....