What is best for the students is not even close to the horizon. All we will get is talk. In 1998 the PLP rode in on a promise to do something about education, which had been in bad shape for many years before then.

Here we are, 2019, 21 years later, who knows how many Ministers later, countless promises later, tens of thousands of hours of talk later, a forest worth of trees sacrificed for useless reports later & nothing has changed.

The public education system is still churning out people who cannot even fill out a job application.

I agree that “Education needs the politics taken out of it” but it must be placed in the hands of a body that is accountable to the people. The existing Board of Education is a good start. Why not make that Board an elected body, independendent of the government of the day? The Board of Education could then be required to report to the people annually. That will not, of course, prevent the government of the day from using the budget to coerce the Board of Education to do as government wishes, but the Board of Education will then be free to tell the people in its annual report that it could not do this or that because the government of the day would not provide funding for this or that.