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Hello folks…. (deep voice)….. from sweet TnT dis is TNN……. An’ I make music yeah…..sweet music…..(Ras Short I)..background music….
Jumpstation: Oh lorse! Oh Loss! Oh lost!; Education for all?; Soca daddy.
OH LORSE! ...OH LOSS! ...OH LOST!
Um.. um.. ummm…… what nex’? When will it end? When will they put us out of our misery? Dem boys lucky dey ent horses, odderwise all now we lookin’ for ah new West Indies Cricket team (wit’ few exceptions!).
Boy, when ah
see licks so, ah start tuh run, because ah say is me next tuh pass in de t’ing…..
Ah mean tuh say, 4, FOUR consecutive losses to teams rated no.
last and no.
nex’ tuh last
in de worl’?! Ah was too shocked tuh cry, to numb tuh get vex…. was like
ah horror story..!
Look nah, Zimbabwe bowlin’ simple ball, dey eh have no world rated batsman, England eh no “Team Rocky” either…could you imagine my distress when I see dem peltin’ over we stumps, an’ den swattin’ we bowlers like flies?
Check out Sunday.. we make 287 runs, ah eminently defensible total in ah 50 overs match, an’ dem fellas jus pick up deyself an’ make de score with balls to spare? An’ if yuh see how we fieldin’… man pickin’ up ball an’ t’rowin’ it in like .. “yuh know dey eh goin’ an’ make dis total, so lemme cool mesef…” No urgency, no desire tuh stifle de opposition, make dem respect yuh… nothin’… As for dem bowlers… is better I did bowl…
Does de term “line an’ length” mean anyt’ing to
bowlers nowadays? Man sprayin’ de ball
like aerosol all over de pitch…. Not even ah bouncer tuh make de
batsman say.. “Hmmm, ah better watch dis fella…”.
An’ den poor Nagamootoo… de fella eh play yet in de two test match
an’ de 3 One days yet… an’ dey put de fellla on de team an’ ask him to
bowl late in game when t’ings was lookin’ tight…
How yuh could do ah young boy dat? Yuh
eh have ah conscience or what?!
An’ people actually callin’ in an’ sayin’ dat
Brian Lara “blight” de side, because since he come back de side losin’…
never mind he top scorin’ or at
least in de 2 top highest scores for de
last 5 games….
Blight?! BLIGHT?!
Dat is what we ascribin’ poor performance to now…. ah blight?! Oh
gosh man, be sensible for ah change, nah… he makin’ de bowlers bowl
nonsense? He tellin’ de rest of
de team to bat like primary school chilren? He have sooooooo much effect on ah team dat de manager,
coach, captain an’ vice captain cyah control him?
Think again…in fact.. think ONCE!
An’ if is ah “blight”, matter fix… let dem hang ah piece ah
“blue” round dey neck, carry ah obe seed in dey pocket, kill two fowl, take
ah bush bath an’ yuh back in
business…ent?
At least ah see one commentator agree wit’ meh… he say
as soon as dey team psychologist gone de team fall apart…. Check de
stats over de last 5 months an’ see… de nex’ piece ah talk of course, is
dat de team shouldn’t be so dependent one man… but what ah sayin’ is dis…
let de man work wit’ de team for ah 6 months… let him get dem togedder, make
ah unit outta dem an’ den he could leave… but no… we pick up for two
Tests… den we drop him… we bring him for one Series den we drop him….. ah
lot of de players new to de side, is dey first trip overseas on tour, dey eh
fully know all de ropes yet… for heaven sake keep de man till de end of de
England tour, nah…. how yuh could build anyt’ing on dat quicksand
foundation…an’ yuh wonder why we in dis mess…?
It seems that once again we have a crisis of our own making. Of course the major talking point over the last two weeks has been the “secondary education for all” issue, whereby it is said, all children sitting the Common Entrance exam and from next year, the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA – Same Exam Anyway?) or something to that effect, will be placed in secondary schools.
The effect will be essentially secondary education for all students. Good, a remarkable advancement if so, in spite of any teething problems that may occur.
There have been cases where children have been placed in
schools which are still or have yet to be constructed, the government paying for
children to go to private secondary schools, the teachers and standards which
may be of dubious quality and the cases of children of low academic achievement
being placed in situations where they are unable to cope, since teachers skilled
to deal with these children are already in short supply and certainly are seldom
hired by these private schools; in fact the government system does not have
these teachers as an essential part of any secondary school.
There are several mistakes being made, which we will
unfortunately be felt later on. On
a brief analysis one may encounter the following:
The reform of an education system, which is being widely
touted, should not be within the gambit of any ruling party.
Education is one of the very
foundations of modern society, health and social/public services being the other
supports. If either of these
collapse, the society becomes dysfunctional.
Education reform needs to have the entire government (ruling party and
opposition), as well as Teachers Unions, Parent Teachers Associations, public
for a for discussion, educational consultants from home, within the region and
even outside of the region, if we find there are system we need to adapt. No
such has taken place.
Secondly, desks and teachers do not make a school; many of
these private schools have no recreational facilities, open spaces or other
avenues for restless teenagers to expend energy. Added to the fact that these schools are not getting the best
of the academic product, is a recipe for internal
problems.
In addition, there are slow learners, students who inherently have less academic ability than others and therefore need syllabi and conditions to suit them, in order to facilitate their development. We have not see it fit to test children entering schools for any learning disabilities, hearing or eye problems, whether they have dysfunctional environments to contend with and their need for counseling, nothing of the sort.
What about expansion of the syllabus to accommodate cultural appreciation, dance, music, technical and vocational subjects on a larger scale and the frenzied pursuing of grants and scholarships so that students are exposed and better equipped to come back and serve their country within a global environment?
Sports and athletics are now a lost cause as far as
development is concerned. Students
are basically herded like cattle in a
large door, some get trampled and a chosen few survive.
A stroke of the pen and continued packing of classrooms which are basically unfit to cater for the needs of their intake population is in no way a forward move.
The word
education has it's root in the word educare , meaning “to draw out of oneself”; essentially then it is about all round self fulfillment and development, an awakening of talents, a bringing forth of potential (academic and otherwise), not a frustration of the same.
Ah nex’ star burn itself out last week… Shorty (Ras Shorty I) fall from de sky.. leaving ah trail of glory behin’ him….
What ah could say about dis fella….. ah feel we still eh recognise how much we owe him for where soca music reach today…. jus’ how much of ah pioneer dis brudder was…. Ras was jus’ controversial at every turn…
Wen he come out wit’ dis soca beat, all de older performers start tuh rain verbal blows on him… how he destroyin’ de music… how he takin’ we dong ah fas’ road tuh Hell… Shorty stick to he guns, an’ now soca international….!
Ah
remember wen in simple lyrics de man put dong Endless Vibrations”
check out de openin’ lines….