Comments on: Minister: Making Education Work For Students

By: Just Us

Just Us — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:22:09 +0000

Now that is funny!

By: Disa

Disa — Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:26:04 +0000

Question for Mr. Scott does he know how many home schools are on the island? Also, are all those running them qualified teachers?

By: Hello

Hello — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:04:40 +0000

Y can’t one of those in the department just run it . We’re is Lew Simmons what is he doing. Dr G Tucker what is she doing. Lew Mathews what is he doing Is there no one fiwn thre that can sort out our mess

By: jt

jt — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 03:01:37 +0000

Average cost per student in Canadian public schools $10k. In Bermuda over $20k. If it’s a third world commitment it’s not in the area of finances.

By: Smh

Smh — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:57:01 +0000

“We are the only public school system in the world fully using the world renowned Cambridge curriculum. ”

The way blatant lies are thrown into these speeches astounds me.

By: Never again

Never again — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:46:16 +0000

Puppets have strings he’s doing as told.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:58:51 +0000

Well, why won’t he comment on it?

By: Educated

Educated — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:36:43 +0000

I have just listened to a few stories from a friend who works in the school system. Yes they come from private school and see so much challenges with some of the teachers who just collect a check. There are some good ones who care without fail. I have seen some are my friends and guess what we all share, we are Government employees so I know there are some really lazy workers I am surrounded by them daily. Therefore lets have a system in place where we hold them accountable.

By: clearasmud

clearasmud — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:29:04 +0000

I don’t know but that isn’t what he was commenting on it’s the committment that I question. if the Premier really thought Education was important to our future (as he claims it is) he would have taken it on himself! Now that would have sent a very strong message!

By: education civil servant

education civil servant — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:33:23 +0000

“An Education System Improvement Plan is in place to provide clear guidance to educators to strengthen student performance. In the past year, this plan has seen teachers undergo professional development in the areas of literacy, mathematics and inclusive and special education.” This is the plan Dr. Lou Matthews was leading.

By: education civil servant

education civil servant — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:31:23 +0000

The Education improvement plan mentioned in the statement is that ongoing plan.It IS what the Minister referred to.

By: jt

jt — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:16:19 +0000

I’m not going to disagree with that aspect of Mr. Charles’ depiction, even though it might well have a self serving angle, but do you think he could ever be expected to publicly provide a balanced and accurate view when it comes to teacher performance and ability?

By: clearasmud

clearasmud — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:56:04 +0000

These kind of articles are self serving at best and do nothing to foster confidence in the system. Mr Charles from the teachers union has far greater credibility than this new Minister and he compared the Governments committment to a 3rd world country so who do you think I believe?

By: Huh

Huh — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:55:39 +0000

It appears to me that poor Mr. Scott has been spoon fed a crock of you-know-what by some of our dysfunctional (by well meaning),Civil Servants who have probably inhaled a bit too much jet fuel while dreaming about their next trip to Disneyworld. Based upon my knowledge of current public education, I would suggest he immediately undertake intensive unannounced assessment tours of all Govt. schools before he goes any further. I think he will find that much of what he has written is nowhere near the current reality and is simply mostly a bunch of platitudes.

By: Quite interesting

Quite interesting — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:36:10 +0000

Wayne,
You just got there and what you should do is study the game before trying to coach!

By: stunned...

stunned... — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:08:21 +0000

whatever happened with that plan with Dr. Lou Matthews etc…was that all talk and a waste of time…?

By: Sickofantz

Sickofantz — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:21:06 +0000

A really obvious initiative would be to examine the attendance record of the public schools and address that. I have friends who have taught in these schools who say they were lucky to get half the class in attendance.

Instead of fining the parents of frequent truants they should list their names in the media. The truant and the parents.

By: Islander

Islander — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:57:57 +0000

I trust great emphasis will be placed on Special Needs children from Pre-School to High School with more ParaProfessionals more seriously structured Special Programs and allowing the Learning Disability students to be involved in all programs of the schools and in High School the basic fundaments of construction hair dressing computers and so forthm, include them in the regular PE Classes teaching them cricket, tennis, basketball – these children are awesome when given the opportunity to learn things outside of the restrictions placed upon them by MOED principals and teachers It is okay to give the excellent students and their parents accolades but lets also put emphasis on our special kids and the parents guardians who are standing with and pushing for excellence from MOED and our teaching professionals The other thing is let us send more students with Ms Zuill Ms Jones Mr Watts to the Summer Special Games next year this is another great experience that many of our kids are missing out on and something that the handicapped association can help with and other committees

By: Thin end

Thin end — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:31:27 +0000

This is an encouraging piece, especially giving precise steps being taken and that they are part of a medium-term (5 yr) plan.

So much better than the earlier piece by the PLP stating:
~We didn’t know what to do
~We don’t know what to do
~We are going to wander around the island asking for ideas

The future is looking brighter

By: Observer

Observer — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:11:28 +0000

I stepped in to a public school … just the look of it told me there was a disengaged principal (who would let the facility look like that? plus the facility I was using didn’t even have enough resources to make it function properly… $100 at ‘The Barn’ would have solved the issue… it isn’t one of money!)

It starts with leadership at the school level, and it seems there is some dead weight around those parts.