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Jul 11, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
It’s the ambition of every responsible parent/parents to see their child/children receive the best education. Some pay fees to ensure this. In some ways, parents want to give their children what they themselves did not achieve as a child. Children in our education system started from Play, Nursery, Primary, Secondary and then to University. We have the Public and Private Schools.
The recent Grade Six Assessment results leave very much to be desired. Approximately seventeen thousand (17,000) students wrote the exams; the education norm is that 10% of the students writing any exams are the top students passing with well over 90%, thereafter the results of the other marks follow.
I therefore wish to state the following:
1. The Grade Six Assessment test showed approximately 240 passing for the top schools.
2. The Ministry of Education has stopped giving exams slips showing grade 2, 4 and 6 adding total marks the students gained in the Assessment Exams.
3. I am stating that the grades 2 and 4 marks were added/not added to some of the students’ grade six marks, therefore less marks and a lower school.
4. When you ask for a review, $5,000 is charged and you have to wait one month to know the child’s fate. No papers are presented for you to see the results of the review. Where is the transparency?
5. The five top schools are Queen’s College, The Bishops’ High, St Stanislaus College, St. Rose’s and St. Joseph High. What has been done to raise the other Secondary Schools to the level of the five (5) top schools?
6. The nation has been hoodwinked by the results. It is insulting to one’s intelligence and the children who have studied so hard and the parents who know the ability of their children and the teachers.
I am calling for a forensic audit of the results of the Grade Six Assessment 2013.
Concerned Parent
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