Football: The ungrateful and unreasonable.

[Jawge]

Irish Name? Is this why you think that you are of Irish descent? 95% percent of Jakans carry English names. Now you go figure why it's that way. Btw is the above the same reasoning you used to determined that the earth is flat? Careful at the edge?

[Jawge]

What is wrong with you? Where is your comprehension skills?

[Sir X]

2 decades ago it was sending young boys to crime now it's relevant in the info age ? ...lol

For the " traditional" schools,so girls are excluded ?

The non traditional schools did better academically like Ardenne,and we are still doing better now.

....lol.The problem with the boys schools is the majority of the students are from the poor neighbourhoods.They start from a social disadvantage which affects their education e.g if the child is hungry how can he study,if he has no clothes why come to school,if their neighborhood is under violence leaving and going to school is a struggle,plus the basics of electricity to study and water to bathe.

So giving them modern technology at school isn't solving the larger problem.

.....lol.Disss bredda ead nuh good.

[Sir X]

After yuh nuh understand it .Next thing yuh say all youth wid Irish name and who black and believe dem handsome nuh qualified fi tek di exam.

2nd did you know when the common entrance was in effect the " traditional " boys schools were some of the worst academically.

Now explain yuh common entrance statement...lol

[Jawge]

I can understand your disdain for the common entrance

[Jawge]

Read over what I

wrote in my post

[Jawge]

Yes it does but now with the info age (internet and all) common entrance is relevant. In the industrial age or two decades back (more) it was sending young boys to crime. Ja's economy needs it now.

[Sir X]

Wha diss bredda Jawge really ah say bout common entrance and "traditional schools" does he have a clue .


Kissteeth.

[Rockman]

I passed Common Entrance with my first try, (so what I will be saying isn't in the vein of sour grapes),but it can't be an ideal indicator of a child's educationbdevelopment.I may as well slept through the junior forms(justvmaking it) and only buckled down when CXC and GCE were lurking around the corner.
It is possible some of those students from non-traditional high schools whoi achieved impressive passes on the whole would have failed the Common Entrance Exams.

[Gamma]

‘Common Entrance’ ... that’s taking me down memory lane ...

[Jawge]

"Yah" sure. This writer must be your friend. Yes/no?

The writer has "used to", then parallels are drawn between EPL teams and high school teams? I can see the effects of cancelling the common entrance. Whilst I'm for high schools all across the island; I think the traditional "highs" should have been kept as specialized high schools (with the common entrance exam as a means of entry).

BTW do you think the high schools in Ja should invest heavily in the math Olympiad?

[Sir X]

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/s...-side-football