By Ralph J Massey

R
ECENTLY the Minister of Education released the results of the 2010 Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education exam - the "BGCSE". The good news was that the scores in a number of subjects ranging from art to religious studies improved; but the scores in English and math did not. In fact, they include unacceptable levels of illiteracy...a situation that has existed at least since 1993 when the BGCSE system started.

The implications of this level of academic failure and illiteracy should be frightening to the informed and concerned Bahamian.

The basic skills of attention, concentration, memory, self-discipline and symbolic and logical thinking are learned ...

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