A reader responds to this blog about why government boards are ineffective, and it is worth repeating here. The unfortunate part is that our children will pay the price – not the present day leaders.
Absolutely true and unfortunatly one of the main hinderences to progress in the Bahamas.
As an example, I have attended two job fairs in the last 3 months, aimed at the 2006 graduating year students in Grand Bahama.
While all were well intentioned, the first, Co hosted by Rotary and B.A.I.C. had only ninth and tenth graders in attendance, as the grad year were sitting exams at the time of the fair. Looked like more of a day off for the kids with a couple more years to graduation, maybe 200 in all.
Even so, it was poorly attended and did not run its full 3 day course, due to lack of communication and interest by the students and their parents.
The second was hosted by the Ministry of education, and was at a government high school.
20 of the student attendees were from one private school,and the other 7 from another private school. No government school students at all attended.
Out of a graduating year of 800 Grand Bahamian students.
There were 21 presenters manning the booths and no parents that I could see.
In my humble opinion? We are in for rocky times ahead, if this is our future. To be fair, these kids are the victims. But they will surely be tomorrows disgruntled.
