Why do students go to high school?

[Time]

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72% Leaving School Underachieving


Aug 12, 2013

72% of secondary school leavers are leaving school underachieving and this is a worrying statistic.
A number of traditional high schools are among the schools who are failing to help pupils achieve.
See our two tables below:

http://educatejamaica.org/index.php/...erachieving/73

[Muadib]

Could be worse.. they could live in Singapore and be really suffering..

[Time]

Congrats Campion! #1 is the list! The two Wolmer's schools are in the top 10. How many Boys schools are in the top 10?

[Muadib]

It is what it is..

[Islandman]

Well I am sure they dominate the Top Sports schools list.

Old Boys haffe be able fe beat dem chest at Manning/D'Cup games and Champs or whats the point?

[Muadib]

Get to the important results.. who win the Robot and Pilot competition ?

[Jangle]

Foolish list this. My school prepare you for the real world....we shell out the lyricists like Baby Cham and World Boss. Shottas me seh!!!!

[Gamma]

ascording to karl, they go to school for the football!

[Karl]

The Why?!

To access guidance on path to development of full potential. ...some term it pathway to become "well rounded individual".

Failing in any area by a school does not help the process!!! The administrators (managers and teachers) in any school should provide excellent learning environment in each and every discipline. Our 'educators' are not being paid to provide sub-standard instructions and guidance at any level and in every discipline! ...PERIOD!!!

When our teachers start putting greatest of sensible effort into achieving excellence across the board then they will have started, for the first time at last, on the path to creation of the type schools our people deserve (country deserves).

[Rockman]

This is such sad freaking news,hopefully St.GC is #21 on the top list.I agree with the general sentiments of your post,we need to hire teachers with the same degree of scrutiny we give to transferees that just happen to be good athletes.
I was wondering who we have in our six forms but remembered only a small percentage of graduates can enroll.
Nevertheless,we are certainly lacking where it matters most.

[Skeng DX]

This is such sad freaking news,hopefully St.GC is #21

nope, according to Cliff here, http://www.nationwideradiojm.com/listenlive.html MONA HIGH is ranked way ahead of Calabar, Georges and JC

[Rockman]

STOP rubbing salt into my wounds,I am already hurting.

[Skeng DX]

listen the program for the next 80 minutes

[Rockman]

will do that,thanks.

[Islandman]

A few additional thoughts:

Lists such as these serve a useful purpose but obviously does not tell the whole story. The demographics of he school population, the academic level of the students who enter first form among other things are important factors in determining if a school is performing adequately.

The much larger problem is the bottom 20 or more likely bottom 50 schools. Those pass rates are , to put it mildly, a disaster.