Rick Lowe
Well Prime Minister Ingraham seems to have had an epiphany regarding the failure of public education.
In The Nassau Guardian of Friday, May 6, 2011 Mr. Ingraham raised several key points regarding the education of our citizens by the public school system.
- Despite spending $17.2 million a sufficient number of students are not achieving their potential.
- The number of low achievers leaving school each year is alarming.
- Employers are reporting far too many recent graduates are not sufficiently educated for entry level posts.
- Students entering COB need remedial maths and english courses before they can start to take college courses.
- The educational system has much work to do to achieve national objectives.
Maybe time did not permit, but no solutions were offered.
Dr. Donald Boudreaux notes in a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal entitled "If Supermarkets Were Like Public Schools" that:
In reality, of course, groceries and many other staples of daily life are distributed with extraordinary effectiveness by competitive markets responding to consumer choice. The same could be true of education—the unions' self-serving protestations notwithstanding. [More…]
In the final analysis one would think the teachers in the public system would feel some sense of responsibility for the failure of their students, the family issues not withstanding.
It's time for the teachers and administrators of the public school system to stand up and be counted for the failure of the educational system.
The future of the country depends on it and Mr. Ingraham is correct to bring attention to it.
It's about time. Now maybe he'll start to privatise education too?
