Manickchand educates Granger on education

Is this a joke? Please tell me it is.

TK, did the level of education in Guyana improve from where it was in 1992 or not? 

Here's your answer, professor:

Minister Manikchand gave it to the FOOLS!!

The politician said that 100 per cent of Guyanese children of primary school age can access education, explaining that the Government has managed to attain universal primary education.  Again citing the relevant statistics, the Minister said that 90 per cent of Guyanese children have access to secondary education regardless of where they live or who they are. She said that children within the education sector have access to exercise and text books while Government was trying to carry the burden of the cost. Soon after Manickchand explained that 72 per cent of the teachers were trained …“More children are passing Common Entrance and topping the Caribbean year after year,” she started again as she detailed the story of progress and accomplishment which have dominated the education sector.

What can this fat dunce teach anyone about education.  She is the govt's squarest peg.  She flaunts an honorary doctorate but does not have as much as an associate degree in education.

Is that her glamour picture? She said she became Minister after helping to wrap scotch tape on pencils at Freedom House.

Guyana is at least 3 decades behind in education.  They can't even provide furniture in schools, keep the grass cut, or powerwash the fungus off school buildings. When your system is staffed largely by teachers with 2 years of training, that's a sign of backwardness.  In some states in the USA, you have to have 2 years of college just to be a teacher assistant. In Guyana, you have many principals with 2-years teacher's training.

Two years ago, I tried to use my influence to get textbooks for a child whose father was killed and left 4 girl children behind, and my friends in the Ministry could not help because they simply did not have the books for everyone.

Forgive TK for his being too young and display some ignorance of the education standards in Guyana before the PNC dictatorship. After the PNC dictatorship, Guyana did not have money to feed the people. Where would they have money to spend on education?
Still wondering where some of these people get their facts from.

You are the typical Parasite in our society. People like you get into Power it will be contacts and Influence as the standars for services.  You really have no SHAME!!

Conditions are the same as under the PNC.

You can't put a square peg Bully to run education.  

Education needs a qualified technocrat, not a jackass.

The fat one can only speak in terms of how many pieces of furniture they put in.  She does not have the educators language of: curriculum, instruction, assessments, teacher quality, professional learning communities, blended learning, differentiated supervision, technology integration in instruction, etc.

Some schools do not have phones still.

Bottom line the success rate of our children is much higher now at the CSEC examinations and that is THE MEASURE.. not phones and all that crap.  Our children have been kicking asses and topping the Caribbean recently at these exams.  Kids are taking 21 subjects now and not 5 and 6 that was the norm. 

Personal attacks do not get you anywhere.  Tell us about Granger's credentials.

How does CXC compare to GCE as far as the content etc?

Alena, Leave him to drown in his IGNORANCE!!!  He thought he was special but was ignored, so now he is bitter.  It is the normal "COOLIE" attitude!!!

Manickchand was a failure in the legal profession, she was a complete waste of time at social services overseeing the appointment of a pedophile to the rights of a child commission and at Ministry of education her biggest achievement was to purchase illegal photocopied text books for children.

She is a  dunce!

Overall, including high school and tertiary education (UG, Technical Institute, CPCE, etc), the answer is a resounding NO!

The students who are doing well are what we call the "in spite of" kids (usually gifted).  They will succeed in spite of the schools they attend. They have the resources, usually come from affluent families or families who risk all to provide extra lessons, etc.

The kids who are not succeeding (the majority) are the "because of" kids.  They are not succeeding because of the design and structure of the current education system. Guyana does not have much services for students with learning disabilities, where a lot of work needs to be done.

The students who take 20 subjects are the outliers; you can count them on one hand- that's not typical of the test takers.

Don't let the fat one dupe you.

Guyana is so far behind they do not even have the language of a 21st century education system.

NO is a word any FOOL can use even one who is causing American Kids to be at the bottom of the barrel with regards to Education.

Look where she is now? Where are you? Trying to get a minista wuk? Whose the dunce? Go look in the mirror.

What exactly is "coolie" attitude?

HAHAHAHAHA      HEHEHEHEHEHE 

Dont forget jumping like a monkey from Party to Party

There has been a switch, but overall no improvement. My old high school has improved under PPP. But my old undergraduate college (UG) has gotten worse under PPP. Is this an overall improvement?

I think it is a fair comparison.  I took a combination of both and I can tell you some CXC subjects seemed a little tougher than GCE. 

U wan UG scholar! 

Get all the benefits for yourself and push the rest down. "Crabs in a Barrel" Ever heard the saying???

Skeldon man:

I visited Skeldon Lutheran 2 years ago to check upon some relatives who attend that school (their father had died leaving 4 girls behind and their mom).

The floor was so dinghy and nasty, I just stood there dumbfounded and speechless. I had been hearing how the PPP improved education, and was shocked to see the reality on the ground. Different year, some nonsense.

Like Jagdeo good buddy...Ed AHmad

And you did not take a Photo of the condition. Oh you did not have a camera.

Ed Ahmad certainly does not fit that category.

Yes I started UG in 1992 (October) just when PNC was voted out so I saw the state PNC had it in. I can compare it with the state PPP has it today. Manikchand was a year behind me. Nandalall was doing Law at the same time. Donald Ramotar and I did one class, Labor Economics, together as he was two years ahead of me. What is the point you're trying to make?

There is no point FOOL, the young Lady asked a simple question.

Anyone knows Granger's credentials - resume, anything?

The last report of the CARICOM Commission on Youth Development, "Eye on the Future: Invest in Youth Now for the Community Tomorrow", noted that the primary education dropout rate was “at a staggering height” in Guyana.

The Ministry of Education itself also reported that nearly 7,000 children drop out of our primary and secondary schools every year.

These are the things Minister Manickchand will avoid mentioning in her elections campaign.

Ksazma,

How can primary and high school education improve without top notch tertiary institutions like UG and CPCE? 

Overall, I would say there are some improvements if you benchmark with the PNC, as the PPP likes to do.  If you benchmark to the world standards, we are 3 decades behind.

Plumpy is a square peg.  It's an affront to the nation to put a square peg to run education.

JB, I hate to say this. YOU ARE A COMPULSIVE LIAR. I visited the schools in and around Skeldon evertime I am there(Last time I was there June 2014). Every school(primary and high) has a fulltime janitor and security guard. They are always clean. Don't come here and spew your early morning weekend sea of hogwash. The schools are not a cesspit. The yards are clean and the principals and headmasters/headmistresses see to that. The outside of the school yards are littered with garbage. This is not the fault of the government; it's the duty of the town council to clean it up. 
Get a grip here and tell the truth. Remember, I grew up in Line Path.

PPP is now hitting the campaign trail and Priya is giving the Racist Granger and the Afrocentric Nationalists PNC shytings.

PNC wheels are falling off.

A few items:

Queen's College Alumnus.

Diploma in International Relations, University of the West Indies.

Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship, University of Maryland.

Lecturer, Army Command and Staff College, Nigeria.

Graduate, Mons Officer Cadet School, UK.

Graduate, University of Guyana, History major.

Adjunct Professor, National Defence University, Washington DC, USA.

Brigadier, Guyana Defence Force.

Our Heroine Priya:

go easy on them