PM Golding Says the Debate on Teaching Patois Signifies ....

[Gamma]

PRECISELY why it needs to be standardised. to protect us from karl!!!!

[Muadib]

Some of us probably THINK we know patios and are fluent in it...

Mi feel seh certain of the population would run rings round nuff ah wi..

[Muadib]

How well would you be able to learn mathematic concepts if you were deaf and could not read ?

[Peter R]

Well, until I read the report, my questions stand; maudib indicates that those concerns are addressed... my feeling is that if Patois is the first language, what we need in Jamaica is make our schools "English immersion".

Patois could be used under the jamaican studies subjects; i.e. history, geography, civic, social studies, language etc.

Are we now going to write text books forAll the above plus Sciences, Math, Foreign Languages etc? It doesn't make sense to me, at this point.

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[Bricktop]

If you are incapable of learning to read I would say you are incapable of learning mathematics. If you can't learn you just can't learn no amount of patois can help yuh wid dat. You can't learn English but yet we expect you to learn calculus?

[Lazie]

Wait ... what about children whose "mother tongue" is spanish ... how dem learn inna english? How other generations of Jamaicans were able to learn in english ... even though dem ... we chat patios among our family and friends?

kiss teet!

[Mosiah]

Bricktop, more important matters. Yuh see KPH video yet?

[Assasin]

teaching must be done by any means necessary. We don't have to have offical documented patwa teachers.

Yu nuh how much bad chatting patwa teacher like Karl mi use to have?

In Jamaica however we must make sure the children master the english language and others because a good amout of them a go fly out and tourism is our number one income owner.

[Bricktop]

Bricktop, more important matters. Yuh see KPH video yet?

I saw the one on CVM news. Yuh have an unedited one to show me?

[Mosiah]

yuhseeit! is as if once yuh speak english den yuh learning problems solved!

[Gamma]

it certainly won't be neccessary at this juncture because standardised tests CXC and GCE will remain in english...

however there are many models from which we can avail ourselves papiemento, haitian creole...etc....willi is swiss german a written language? i understand that it is dying out as only the older folks speak it. culturally speaking, that would be a shame too.

[Mosiah]

horrible example! could not have come up with a worse one, brickie.

you tell me, what language is that in?

[Bricktop]

will it prevent them from learning those subjects? maybe i'm missing your point.

No. Absolutely not. It will have no effect.

[Mosiah]

The one on CVM news?!? Trust mi, fi mi cyaan show pon CVM!

[Muadib]

Would you be more proficient learning something something taught in German or English ?

Would you send your Child to a German School in an English speaking country or an English school ?