Will hire more teachers with no money to hire them. Next two years , teachers strike for the monies owed to them since August 2022. And the beat goes on.......keep spending what you do not have.

Hire ...... From where?

Haiti? Would make sense since the only kids paying attention in class are the Haitian children.

Sheepie12 most likely the government will hire teachers from either Jamaica, Guyana or Trinidad & Tobago.

And the invasion of the Bahamas by foreign nationals continues with the help of the very wicked Hanna-Martin. She's now rivaling Maynard-Gibson for the title of Most Wicked Bahamian.

We don't have enough teachers period. We're to small of a nation to not hire foreigners for specialized positions. The government just needs to make sure Bahamians get training from foreign specialist and that Foreigners are only given work in sectors with talent shortages.

Or if you want the government can force you to become a teacher and you'll teach where they decide

There are over 3000 teachers for 50,000 students.
That's about 1 teacher per 15 students.

Problem is that teachers are not distributed equally across the country. That is a human issue. Also, there's a serious problem with specialist teachers in secondary schools. That is a HR training issue. Another is the large number of small rural schools. That's a logistical problem.

The bigger problem is that by every standard measure of core competency requirements, about two-thirds of our 'teachers' are really not teachers at all and should not be teaching our children and grandchildren. They are glorified daycare sitters, not teachers. And frankly, many of them should not be allowed near young children.

Tribanon, I can't speak to your genius or accolades, but 98% of our present Bahamian teachers have a college degree. The foreign white teachers of the old days were not nearly as certified as our teachers today.

Can you explain what you mean? Or are you just being mean to Bahamian teachers?

Most of the Uber and taxi drivers in America today have college degrees, not to mention just about every bar tender and higher-end restaurant worker. And many of those expat teachers in the old days had first class honours and other advanced degrees (masters, Ph.D., etc.) from some of the most well-known universities in the U.K. That was until Pindling had Loftus Roker pave the way for the very dysfunctional public education system, or should I say daycare sitter system, we have today.

Boldness would be to rethink the narrative we have all clung to for years that a college classroom is the ticket to sought after ― Yes?

That's one ugly sour-puss face The Tribune just loves to subject us to.

Preparation and maintenance of children education is a luxury within hard pressed homes. The most that some kids get from schooling is its important social and peer benefits. Tithe home is the driving force of study, order, discipline and homework. It is a partnership where reinforcement of schooling takes place at home. Some homes fail at the basics of breakfast, pencils, books and every other destruction under the sun. Those home environments just teetering on social survival mode after the covid disruption live in a state of stress. No wonder the CDC demands that no longer should education be disrupted and overshadowed by any thing covid including child forced vaccination or simple flu like symptoms shut down.