At least for those kids from Standard IV and V who will take part in the Summer School Programme which begins November 24. This is our Government's response to the high failure rate at the CPE exams. I don't think this will really work because almost everybody knows that the problem is not with our kids but with the curriculum which needs to be redesigned to make learning more playful and relevant. Besides there is a much easier way to dramatically reduce the end of primary education failure rate: bell curve the results to allow a few thousands more children in Form 1 in January 2012.
For sure we can learn from Finland where kids begin school only when they're 7, spend the least amount of time in classrooms and yet are at the top of the PISA rankings. By the way, I am hoping Mauritius will start participating in this serious survey in the next few hundred years. Once we get tired of gazing at our navels that is.
Finally, there is another reason why we don't want to go ahead with the summer school programme. And that's because we know that kids now are not as physically strong as they were before. So the last thing we want is to have them spending still more time behind their desks slowly morphing into obese parrots. Nope. We better have them enrolled in a Summer Football Programme.
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Yes, this not only spoils school holidays, but also places undue additional stress on teachers who also need to recover at times...
Does someone think about managing the human resources at some level?
And if schools remain occupied even during vacations, when will maintenance works be scheduled? Or are we ready to take the risks of paint vapours and / or presence of construction materials as normal for children?
Yep. Fits Einstein's definition of insanity perfectly...
Le 10 mars Saturday Football League pe larguer pu bann zelev sekonder avec 125 lekip. Se byen.
Par kont, domaz bann zenfan primer pena pumon pu galupe lor laplenn, transpire byen ek vinn en form.
De tut le fason bann ti-bambin-la bizin gard lenerzi pu apran kuma peroke sipa Mahe de Labourdonnais ti kontan manz de uswa trwa dizef pu so ti-dezene...
I heard that to err is human... But what about renewing faith in repeated failure to deliver on expectations of consistently high quality? So, until we have some hard-balled Minister of Education, we forget about our PISA rating...
We have enough smart people to develop our own exams. Especially given all the codified knowledge that is readily available.
Yes, even foreigners say that we have competence locally!
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