'Stress ah kill di Jamaican people'

[Karl]

Very informative article from Eddie Seaga on the history of so-called "free education" in Jamaica.


http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...us/focus4.html

Loads of facts ..but to me this

The restoration of "free education" insofar as covering the cost of payments for tuition, was a strong platform of the JLP in the 2002 general election when I made repeated calls for the abolition of payment of tuition fees. Prime Minister P.J. Patterson promised to implement a policy of free tuition within two years, but it was not done. Bruce Golding, Leader of the Opposition, has quite rightly revived the issue for the current election, but so far without success.

Education as a result, continues to be tossed around as part of a one-upmanship game without recognising that with all the changes made over 40 years, the results remain the same: 75 per cent of the secondary school age students have no CSEC passes and no marketable skills at all.

...the numbers of kids needing free education in any one year has grown...tremendously! ...leads to a wondering on; Can we at this time afford the costs of free education?