More than J$8 Million to win Champs? Hmmm

[Bricktop]

The boosters are paying for athletics not for science labs...can't really tell them how to spend their own money...if Calabar told them they are putting it towards science labs they wouldn't get the money...

[Muadib]

why ?

Dem nuh win Schools Challenge Quiz ?!

[Bricktop]

Athletic boosters are interested in athletics...they pay for access...biggup dem chest that dem know "big athlete" in person...academics is of no interest to most of them...

[Time]

Still can't fault him for putting the focus on academics

If he tried that at Calabar then he would have been fired. Winning champs is what count at Calabar. At Wolmer's we judge the principals on academic performance. Sports do not count.

[Jangle]

Bullsh!t!!!! Academics counts just as much at Bar. It just so happens that CBar, KC and JC have a stronger, bigger and more involved Old Boys Association than Wolmers and the other schools. Plus we have a bigger school population to draw on.

[MdmeX]

Nuff man haffi eat a food. What yuh tek this thing for Time :-)

[MdmeX]

Well just look how much money these corporations have thrown into Sports - Grace Kennedy, Lime, Digicel et al. Percentage wise, how does the amount they contribute to academics compare to their sports contribution?

[Time]

Bullsh!t!!!! Academics counts just as much at Bar. It just so happens that CBar, KC and JC have a stronger, bigger and more involved Old Boys Association than Wolmers and the other schools. Plus we have a bigger school population to draw on.

True, CBar, KC and JC have a bigger school population, a bigger sports team and a bigger old boys association and the old boys supports sports. However, I doubt that academics count as much as sport at Cbar and I am reasonable sure that the Cbar principal would be fired if he cut down on T&F. I am sure that the two Wolmer's principals have nothing to fear by cutting down and T&F and everything to fear by putting T&F on equal footing with sport.

Tradition is a hell of a thing. Daniel England was qouted as saying that T&F came first at Cbar in his days. I hope that is not true is 2012.

[Jangle]

Context - T&F came first to Daniel England. In my graduating year, my class alone (of approx. 50-odd boys), had at least 10 -15 of us getting 8 or 9 Grade 1 passes in CXC. My very good friend got 10 1's. We had 85% of the class getting more than 5 Grade 1 passes. Back then, you needed at least 4 Grade 2 passes including Maths and English just to get a decent job. Those numbers represented just one class out of 10 (we had two shifts). I don't know what the numbers are today, but contrary to your misguided perception, academics is right up there in terms of priorities as is sports. We have had our Rhode Scholars and our other scholars. Out of my same crop of graduates, I can think of 5 guys off the top of my head who have gone on to greater academic achievements - 1 a professor at MIT, another a professor at a university in LA, another, who was not even in the top echelon of the class is now a principal at some "country" high school, throw in a couple doctors and a pilot an auditor............cho, the list too long.