Roy Sanford, Staff Reporter
WESTERN BUREAU:
PAUL ADAMS, a former president of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA), is calling for a 24-hour television channel on education and culture as a means of providing an avenue for educating students when they are out of the immediate school environment.
Mr. Adams, who was speaking Wednesday at the annual awards ceremony for teachers at Somerton All-Age School, in Montego Bay, St. James, noted that the channel would compete with the two national television stations, TVJ and CVM, which he accused of "populating the screens with everything else apart from education at certain times of the day when students come home from school."
"I am saying the time is right for us to have a special TV channel on education that will provide a tremendous help for the minds of students, minds that are robbed otherwise," Mr Adams said, emphasising his position.
He pointed out that in this technological age it is impossible to hide television from students. "So I am saying don't hide the students away from TV. Just provide another avenue for them instead of what they are seeing now."
He said both private and public sector interests should combine to make the station a reality. "Do this one for education," he urged.
