LETTER OF THE DAY - The real burdens teachers face daily
The Editor, Sir: I wish that Jamaicans would really understand that the recent 'incidents' in our schools are only a small sample of what teachers deal with daily. On any given day, the teacher is parent, confidante, lawyer, judge, therapist, health care provider...
Homework complaint
The Editor, Sir: Fourth graders get way too much homework. Every night we do loads of it. We have no time to play. Also, we never have time to spend with our families. Every evening, we come home and spend the night doing school work. No one likes to come home...
Curriculum queried
The Editor, Sir: Kindly allow me some space to query the appropriateness of some of the content related to the Grade 6 English Language curriculum. The sentences below are taken from Mastering Vocabulary Book 5, published by Caribbean Educational Publishers.
Remove 'red monies'?
The EDITOR, Sir: Mr. Editor, allow me some space in your most noble newspaper to comment about the dying value of our local currency 'the red monies'. I am concerned that irrespective of the establishment at which I may conduct business, tendering cash of course...
Parents to be blamed
THE EDITOR, Sir: Disturbing news of student-centred upheavals at the Kingston Technical High School, as well as at other schools, has impelled me to share publicly my age-old conviction that the intolerable scourge of crime, violence and indiscipline being experienced...
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