Education in the Bahamas
The system of education in the Bahamas has become a national disgrace. When is the government of The Bahamas going to make a commitment to better education, better standards, better schools and better citizens? The decrepit, passive educational system in The Bahamas continues to miserably produce failures, dropouts and dysfunctional citizens. ... A primary function of government is to establish and maintain common standards in education and to facilitate education for all citizens. ... The opposite is true in The Bahamas. ... ” Measured against this standard, the public school system in The Bahamas has become both socially useless and socially dangerous. ... It is a system that must be discontinued immediately if we are to turn education in The Bahamas around. ... What the Bahamas need is an intensive-care approach right from the start, concentrating every possible resource on helping students as soon as they begin to fall behind. ... Clearly prevention is key to turning around education in the new millenium. ... Education is the vehicle by which a society transmits from generation to generation, those values that a society holds dear or sacred.