{"id":42748,"date":"2011-08-28T07:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T11:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=42748"},"modified":"2011-08-28T07:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T11:55:46","slug":"commentary-going-beyond-universal-secondary-education-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/educationyouth\/commentary-going-beyond-universal-secondary-education-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Going beyond universal secondary education – part two"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aurelius Gordon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our secondary schools<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As far as our secondary schools are concerned, we as a society, need to go way beyond just placing all our grade six students in high schools. This is a basic human right; however, it is definitely not good enough, in the information age of the twenty first century, to simply place all grade six students in secondary schools without putting the other infrastructural and super structural features in place to operationally produce high quality and excellence at all our secondary schools nationally and regionally ! We can\u00a0 most\u00a0 certainly do much better than that as a nation and Caribbean Region. The very future peace and socio-economic prosperity of all our nations rests on this very issue!!! We all therefore need to dialogue honestly\u00a0 at all levels on this central question !! Are our secondary schools in the region producing the desired results where it matters most; and if not, what should we do about it?<\/p>\n

Firstly, the overwhelming evidence demonstrates that\u00a0 the model nations mentioned above have\u00a0 successfully implemented education reforms which ensure universal access\u00a0 without\u00a0 destroying the quality and level of academic achievement of their traditional secondary schools. The soundest evidence in educational policy clearly demonstrates that the most successful nations mentioned above have achieved universal access at all levels of education without sacrificing quality and excellence. This is the central issue which needs to be fully explored within the context of a national symposium.<\/p>\n

It goes without saying, that every single child must be educated at the high school level and beyond to achieve one\u2019s full potential; however, no school can possibly\u00a0 be all things to all students and at the same time focus on achieving excellence in all areas ! Again , the overwhelming\u00a0 research evidence in education policy and education psychology is clear, that some of our secondary schools should be left alone to focus on the teaching of students who have proven ,through the national exams, that they possess the required\u00a0 core competences in English, Math, Social Studies, and Natural Sciences. The effect of such a\u00a0 policy would be to drive competition and academic excellence both at home and in\u00a0 all our schools at all levels !!! This would make our primary school parents, students and teachers work much harder at home and at school !!! As a result, the whole system would benefit since we all would strive to achieve much higher standards all round !<\/p>\n

Secondly, some of our secondary schools need to be streamed into academic and technical vocational sections with immediate effect !\u00a0 We also need to develop specialized secondary schools focused only on skills training and remedial learning. In fact, it is my humble view that The various national Youth Skills Training Programs should form the core of this new type of secondary school. Indeed, this would ensure that the major learning gaps of our students would\u00a0 be concentrated on. As a result, these early learning and social development gaps in our students would be corrected within specialized secondary schools. At the moment, too many of our secondary school students who are the future leaders\u00a0 of our nation are allowed to leave\/ drop out from\u00a0 secondary school or graduate with too many major learning gaps which serve to undermine their future academic ,technical and social development. This is a\u00a0 very serious threat to the future prosperity and stability of our regional economy and\u00a0 the peaceful development of our wider society .We should not be allowing students to repeat for one two, and three years within our traditional secondary schools before correcting their obvious learning gaps.<\/p>\n

Allowing\u00a0 our secondary school students to repeat the same form for\u00a0 two years does major damage to their self esteem.\u00a0 We should instead create special\u00a0 schools or special technical vocational streams\u00a0 within our existing primary and secondary schools. This\u00a0 would\u00a0\u00a0 allow all students to have an opportunity to do well within their areas\u00a0 of competence. At the same time , the school would be able to do corrective teaching.<\/p>\n

Also, we need to come to a basic understanding and realize that, we fail students, we fail parents; indeed, we destroy schools; we frustrate teachers and principals, as a society; when our traditional secondary schools\u00a0 are asked to teach basic grade four reading and writing to high school students! This is the task of a specialized remedial skills based, technical vocational school program.<\/p>\n

Further, when we fail to properly structure remediation in core areas of competence in Math, English , Social Studies, and Natural Science at our primary and secondary schools, this results in the undermining of quality, competence and excellence at the tertiary level of education and human resource development . Our boys are the ones most negatively affected by this crisis.<\/p>\n

Finally, we need to examine, very carefully, how small nation states ,in the Caribbean and elsewhere , such as Barbados, Singapore, and\u00a0 Cuba have successfully transformed their education systems to achieve universal access, while at the same time increasing the quality, soundness , academic and technical excellence, and level of competition within\u00a0 their systems of education. This is a very noble agenda which\u00a0 we , in The Caribbean ,should pursue with a sense of great urgency and determination .<\/p>\n

Also, we, as a society need to immediately implement a vigorous Program of Christian Spirituality, Physical Education, Sports, Cultural Education and Healthy Lifestyle Education throughout our entire education systems around the Caribbean Region as a matter of the highest priority, to arrest this wave of crime , violence and unhealthy and unsustainable\u00a0 lifestyles among our children, youth and adult population in Dominica , The Caribbean and the Americas !!!<\/p>\n

Our forefathers and mothers\u00a0 have suffered hundreds of\u00a0 years of\u00a0 mental, physical, economic and social slavery, colonization, abuse and underdevelopment . We therefore need to put all our efforts\u00a0 regionally into reclaiming what our ancestors have lost in terms of education and human resource development and all the attendant benefits of socio-economic advancement that come with that. Let us all ,as one region,\u00a0\u00a0 take time to look to nations such as Singapore, Cuba, Brunei, Canada,\u00a0 Germany, France,\u00a0 Belgium, Sweden, and China, and many others, which have successfully developed their education systems to meet\u00a0 the needs of their people for holistic development, as well as\u00a0 to build successful, peaceful and prosperous societies.<\/p>\n

Aurelius Gordon is a Graduate Teacher at The North East Comprehensive School and a former Lecturer of\u00a0 Social Studies\u00a0 at The Faculty of\u00a0 Education of The Dominica State College.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our secondary schools As far as our secondary schools are concerned, we as a society, need to go way beyond just placing all our grade six students in high schools. 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