Is this truly a surprise to anyone? BJC grades the best of times are not stellar. This time you sent children out in the middle of a pandemic to take exams when in the case of BJCs the exams had been postponed three times. Also very few private schools even bothered to help students review.

Even Cambridge who writes these exams made a decision to cancel their exams. When persons tried to tell you do not go through with the exams you acted as if children are not humans and would not be affected by what was going on around them. I heard on more than one occasion the callous remarks "why would children be affected by this pandemic, they ain got bills or nothing else to do."

Blame arrogant Jeff Lloyd for the poor grades. He should be made to resign.

This is great news for our corrupt and incompetent ruling elitist politicians. For decades now they have had the very deliberate goal of creating generations of the most dumbed-down voters possible.

I'm old enough to remember when a C was considered in TERRIBLE the Bahamas

but

That was the days of the Bay Street Boys

Independence has done one thing for the Bahamas, made Bahamians happy of being mediocre

Not surprising..instead of urging them to stay home and read a book (not taught at a young age to love to read but they’ll learn to love studying at college?) we gat them babbling insults (move out! and n****r! - yep, explains why youth are always hauled before the courts) in the streets at new-mama (you better give your new-kids their money, ain’t no way WE ga spend 27 years in the workforce). Hand us OUR money on that gold platter.

Stupid, egotistical parents have trained the youth to be unambitious: why should we study and/or work hard at a job? Doesn’t that one stranger have money? She’s US (lived in our neighborhoods and even walks around) so we’re entitled to money too. Um, who are they to me? I chose not to procreate but their parents chose to have them (so shouldn’t they be pestering THEIR mummy and daddy - if they can find him?)

Witnessing their lazy parents resent working has led to youth hating the thought of working too. My parents never complained (50+ & 35 years in the workforce) - came home tired and sweaty. Their knows-she’s-entitled-to-money-but-for-those-eight-years-still-did-her-job-faithfully daughter has been in the workforce for 27 long years (since age 17 or 7).

Yes, you reap what you sow...

Why is anyone surprised at this? I certainly don't expect any better.

These governments enjoy creating this stupid populace, it means that they can go around giving out fried chicken, rum, and a marlin in a hat every 5 years to get back in power. The educational system was purposely designed this way.

A jerry -rigged educational system. A population who does not value education.

An industry that does not require either academic or technical skills to make a good living.

A country where one's success is based on a number of non-educational factors. Skin color,
parentage, what neighborhood you live in, what church you attend ,what lodge you get to join and if your political party is in power and how close you are to the man. Also if you are connected and if the man like you.

I am not surprised at the outcome. It's like been this for some time.

Time has come for brungs about PopoulacesPurse's **defunding** of schools. **Shakehead** a quick once for upyeahvote, a slow twice for not?

I could only LMAO listening to Lloyd try to persuade bahamians that D, E and F grades aren't so bad because the grading scale now goes to M. What he really said in effect is those grades are virtually meaningless, so employers must find another standard to assess prospective employees.