I applaud the efforts of Minister Caines to change social attitudes (from a different ministry). But we need a fundamental clear out of the education system here in order to stop the rot. For a nation that is ranked so highly by GDP and IT penetration it is practically criminal that only 1 student achieved a C in science. I can only imagine what that student would have achieved given a better chance in life. This is no way to deliver social empowerment or improve economic wealth.

Please, please, please, swallow the pride and do something to actually help our children.

And please start by withdrawing the sycophantic prose suggesting that the results are alright. They are not. Get over it and take some English lessons yourself.

When are we (all of us) especially GOVT going to realize that children just DO NOT WANT to go to school. What is it that ANYONE on the planet can do to entice kids to get up in the morning and say ‘i can’t wait to go to school today’…..Absolutely nothing. Not even WiFi will help.

There used to be a time that if you did not know what 6 x 5 was you had to literally do ||||| ||||| ||||| six times and then add up each individual stroke. Who remembers those days? Technology has totally ruined the retention of knowledge in most peoples brains. No more need to if i can just GOOGLE it.

I truly don’t know what anyone can do to better this situation and apparently neither does ANY government.

To quote from the report written by the Director of Academics (who seems proud of his Ph.D.): “Bermuda Public Schools continues (sic) to provide a personal, meaningful educational experience to meets (sic) the needs of all students. We are proud of the accomplishments of our schools and students.”

Really … they’re proud.
And they think they only need to focus on math.

Teachers are an easy scapegoat for massive systematic failures.

Are students going to look back with fondness on people who challenged them to be more than they ever dreamed?

Or will they be left to feel that EVERYONE has failed them?

The cycle of parents blaming teachers and teachers blaming parents is sad because in the past so many parents were not well educated and ALL of their trust was in the teachers to guide their children toward a better understanding of the world they lived in. Often a teacher may have been the only person in a child’s world to give them hope for a better future.

While you are celebrating the beautiful heritage of the BUT this year will you also be celebrating better exam results?

If you are a public school teacher who has children in private school is it difficult to put your all into getting your students to succeed?

Is it a conflict of interest to work for one “company” and have investment in its “competitor”?

Is a person’s mental capacity only as great as their parent’s’ bank accounts?

Does anyone realize that the children who fail today become everyone’s problem tomorrow ?

They become the people so disaffected that they become criminals and people who don’t care how well educated you or YOUR children are….they will take what you worked hard for or worse become the bad relationship decision your educated child makes. It can happen…..ask around it already has and will continue to happen.

Are we simply educating our future underclass?

My only hope at the moment lies in the fact that the education minister’s child is in public school and so is mine…….we’ll see what happens

Don’t care what profession you are in, except maybe driving a bus, you need maths. Taxi driver, plumber, carpenter, electrician, carpet layer, laying block, on & on, you need to have a handle on maths & you need to be able to figure it out in your head.

What is going on in the Government schools?

Not a single student managed to get an A in either Math or Science. And this is just general science, not a focused Physics, Chemistry or Biology. What chance do these kids have in an increasingly technical world?