Anybody with two and a half grams of intelligence knows that we are in the current mess because of the reforms that were implemented by Rama Sithanen and Ali Mansoor. Navin Ramgoolam has to take a lot of the blame for allowing the toxic policies to inflict a lot of damage on the livelihood of Mauritians. He should have better surrounded himself to include enough dissent in the decision-making process -- an important ingredient for increasing the odds of leaving a legacy that will not be sneezed at. Although that would have been easy to do given the number of smart people around it will not change the past. But we can still invent a better future.
We could for example start with the lowest hanging fruit: the CPE. Just add enough chairs in post-primary classes so that we fail 3,500 less kids this year. Repeat the same process next year and we would have stopped the senseless practice of making thousands of children pay for a badly designed learning process. Who knows? Maybe this will help produce another Steve Jobs ready to dent the universe. One more time.
Reading this article is like powerlessy watching an immense wreckage happening in slow motion...
ReplyDeleteI refuse to believe that a person is born to fail (as one subtitle reads). These kids just need some special attention, is it SO difficult to find the right formula for motivating these kids to sit and discover the immense joys and wonders of literacy? Like reading a Petzi, Tintin, or Luky Luke? Or the works of, say, Enid Blyton?
Yep, or as if you're in one of those movies where you are screaming on the top of your lungs to draw attention to an impending disaster but no one hears you because you're... dead.
ReplyDeleteWhy do we insist in killing their creativity?
Sometimes, letting the door open to candid feedback tells you if you are on track or not...
ReplyDeleteIn fact we should always let the door open for such feedback. Who wants feedback which is not honest? Mostly bean-counters suffering from the mo-mem-meyer syndrome I guess. Not all is lost though as medias can morphed themselves into a platform for the equivalent "I wish my Finance Minister knew..."
ReplyDeleteAnd the sore thumb of the absence of proper screening of teacher-wannabes who suck the life out of the poor kids, making them feel like just another brick in the wall...
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