Every member of the diaspora

[Muadib]

A next school that did not make the Top 10 in Math or English..

I sense a trend..

[Don1]

yes

[Assasin]

we can hide all we want but we are crime and corruption also affect people in the diaspora. When I go the back and the manager can tell you how she send her teenage son for summer and he went to visit a girl in spanish town and ended up in the wrong area and was shot and killed. She was actually crying when she was telling. Or when a couple in ther 70s would build their house tell me they went to spanish town at a bank and when they walk out in the middle of the day the walk out in a shootout and the gunman run pass them holding his gun. You see it in an article posted here how returnee are no longer interested in going back to Jamaica. I alway encourage people to go home even to visiit but more people are fed up and some people just want to live a quiet life. When a 2 year visiting from Britain was killed, don't you think it affect all the people from that community in the diaspora and even others beyond. Whne we have Dudus kind of character you think it only affect people in Tivoli? When the minister of security can be robbed so easy you think people in the diaspora not thinking about it?

[Peter R]

Seems to me that it is Jamaicans who are poised for take off (as in leff deisland)... not JA

[Karl]

No

From the beginning it was designed to spark a national revolution in science education...something I have tried to communicate at every opportunity

Good!
...if you had to visit the institutions training teachers what would be your main charge?

I ask as I am thinking you could also reach every nook and cranny...all our kids using those institutions.

Aside: ...as could the 'football people' incorporate those institutions to spread 'di word'!

[Don1]

I disagree. The diaspora needs to understand the nature of Jamaicans

In the 1930s Jamaica faced a political and economic crisis culminating in islandwide riots...What happened??

Elements of the Jamaican diaspora based in New York engineered the self government movement which in turn sparked the development of the political parties...(the fact that the JLPNP fcuk tings up wid dem corruption is not the diaspora's fault )

The lesson from this: It's folly to wait for change to come out of Jamaica...the people there are to small minded, tribal and corrupt from top to bottom... especially at the top where it's really stink

It seems change must be imposed or inspired from outside. The Jamaican diaspora needs to be reminded of its historic role and deal wid di matta

Seedless Grapes tuh di Whirl

[Don1]

Good!
...if you had to visit the institutions training teachers what would be your main charge?

I ask as I am thinking you could also reach every nook and cranny...all our kids using those institutions.

Aside: ...as could the 'football people' incorporate those institutions to spread 'di word'!

Our Digital Yard project involves exactly that model:

Universities are engaged and empowered with new technology and new approaches to education...they then assist high schools to master the new techniques in a competitive scenario e.g. Robotics or CAD contests aimed at modeling solutions to important problems

Tapping into the strong HS competitive stream is key to the wide propagation of new learning models.

Schools Challenge (its dated rote learning/regurgitation model notwithstanding) is a good example of competition working to disseminate a (1960s ) concept

The primary level reform is actually more challenging but the modalities to manage dat are being worked on slowly..but dat ah nuff money

Of course the big problem is most Jamaicans at home and abroad prefer yappin' & bellyachin' & badmindin' to reformin'...this forum being a perfect microcosm of dat national reality

[Exile]

We are a selfish talkative people.

[Don1]

We are a selfish talkative people.

unfortunately yes

[Willi]

Dont worry bout Jawges. Despite all the sabotage, we have been on an academic improvement path for the last 5 years or so.

The infrastructure is great as well, so a rebound is inevitable.

[Skeng DX]

that's going to be difficult...since the parents of the brightest boyz select campion,wulmaz and ardenne as their 1st 3 choice...in general

[Willi]

The difficult we do with ease...the impossible takes just a bit longer...

[Mosiah]

Poise, Don1, POISE! Pose is for domino players and Madonna followers.

[Mosiah]

LOL! Good one!

Mi soon poise fi take off too!

[Skeng DX]

1st you have to get the top gsat boys to select you