Where lies educational responsibility?
published: Sunday | April 6, 2003 Garth Rattray I grew up seeing her sacrifice nights and weekends preparing lesson plans, making charts and marking papers. She taught throughout most of the day and assisted students in need of help after school hours. I WAS relieved to learn that the Government has fulfilled its promise to award our more than 20,000 Government-paid teachers the increased salaries that they so richly deserve. Teachers are essential for the progress of any society; we cannot survive without them. Unfortunately many parents unfairly rely heavily upon teachers to fully educate and/or reform their children. Academician, sociologist and dean at the University of the West Indies, Professor Barry Chevannes, was the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony of the HEART Trust’s seminar on Lifelong Learning, held at the Jamaica Conference Centre (March 26-27). The Jamaica Observer reported that he lamented the “quality of education being offered in Jamaica”. He also “argued that
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