Member of parliament for St James North West, Dr Horace Chang, has announced plans for the construction of a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) school in Norwood, which is located in his constituency.
The school may initially enrol boys exclusively, partly because young Jamaican males are marginalised in the education system, he said.
“While we have a lot of activities involving young men, we have an education system which is designed to suppress our young, humble, male society, and that means 99 per cent young black males.
“The entire system is designed to put them at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder; that is, the education system we have inherited, and we have not done enough to transform and change it,” said Chang.
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The school may initially enrol boys exclusively, partly because young Jamaican males are marginalised in the education system, he said.
“While we have a lot of activities involving young men, we have an education system which is designed to suppress our young, humble, male society, and that means 99 per cent young black males.
“The entire system is designed to put them at the bottom of the socio-economic ladder; that is, the education system we have inherited, and we have not done enough to transform and change it,” said Chang.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/l...ounced-norwood
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