LMAO. No one believes a word Hanna-Martin says about anything.

The New Day gimmicks in MOE are not really improving student or teacher productivity.

Breakfast program is slush fund for PLPs. Big school contracts are for PLP generals. Five pools are numbers boys paybacks for PLP favours. School Police is a feel good program that undermines school administration. No real school upgrades in rural communities. Poor internet is the demise at BTC. There are still serious crises in staffing and parental involvement that the Minister tries to fix with monthly Zoom meetings.

The wholesale commitment to MOE reform is absent.

All true.

"She said at the primary school level, 85 percent of students who had a GPA below 1.0 are now above 1.0. At the junior level, 80 percent of students with a GPA below 1.0 have also improved, and at the senior level, 83 percent of students have surpassed the 1.0 threshold."

Is it even possible to set the bar any lower?
Our entire nation is a disgrace regarding educational outcomes.
There are more illiterate and alliterate adults per capita than should be legally allowed.
It is a great case for the elimination of democracy, given our so-called "political leadership disaster" by the people.

Kudos to any efforts to improve on the education of those who have grades which need improving.

On the free food program to govt school students education system, should also be extended to those in the private school system whose parents taxes are also paid to the authorities to facilitate the program.

Parent(s) with children in the private school system also struggle to feed their children while their taxes goes towards massive increasing amounts in the govt. school system.

The presence of "private schools" is the root of the problem in our educational system. Most of them are not even worth having open anyway. Outside of maybe 5-10 of the old established elitist private schools, the others are not that much better than public schools. Check the external exams results for proof of that.

Get rid of this duopoly and maybe the public schools may not be at the disadvantage that they are in.

@sheeprunner. Most of the schools which should not have opened should have its shortcomings remedied and/or closed when it fails its students continuously. Good teachings creates good citizens and building our beloved Bahamaland.

The issue of schools and performances and failures is a whole new story which has been going on for years and which your excellent insight needs to be assessed on schools performances. There should be a report card on all these schools and why those who fail and to continuously exist.

All schools have number of students with empty tummies and no child from any school should go hungry.

Many Bahamians with the family culture and dynamics of ma, pa and grammy and good neighbours who would lend a few cups of robin hood, grits, or borrow some mathama or items, ensured that children had at least some breakfast of fire engine or stick to ya ribs porridge, and went to school with a slam bam and some change which usually get used returning home for some sausage with hot sauce or ice cup and there was always lots of fruits from any yard which people would often wait to give it away to schoolchildren. Many fruit trees existed before people started to chap them down because of the other owners started to own the fruit. With all the fruit trees no child could go hungry in the recent past.