{"id":24705,"date":"2012-08-15T07:20:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T11:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24705"},"modified":"2012-08-15T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:28:05","slug":"bahamas-education-system-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/bahamas-education-system-failing","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Education System Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_24706\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24706\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24706\" title=\"pm-kids\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pm-kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pm-kids.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pm-kids-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24706\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Christie with students at E.P. Roberts Primary School. BIS\/PETER RAMSAY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Perry Christie said it is important that schools avoid social promotion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the things that exist don\u2019t make sense because a country like The Bahamas ought to be able to more efficiently dedicate its resources, allocate [those resources] to education to assist that whole educational system towards being a much better, more productive system.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education Jerome Fitzgerald said last week that nearly 50 percent of seniors at government high schools did not meet the requirements to graduate with diplomas, and are instead awarded leaving certificates.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald released the results of the 2012 Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) and Bahamas Junior Certificate (BJC) exams last week.<\/p>\n<p>The average grade for English Language was a D and the average grade for Mathematics was E+ in the BGCSEs.<\/p>\n<p>He said the education system doesn\u2019t recognize and help students with learning disabilities and that is something that poses a challenge for teachers and is something he hopes to address.<\/p>\n<p>The Nassau Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas education system doesn\u2019t recognize and help students with learning disabilities which poses a challenge for teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,140],"class_list":["post-24705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-educational","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}