By RALPH MASSEY

I
F THE Bahamas is going to end the scourge of academic underachievement in its public schools, a number of factors must be taken into account.

First, the Department of Education must change how it reports its overall performance.

Up until recently the department confined its reporting to the BGCSE exam results and then with a "single-letter-grade" for all schools - public and private - and for all 26 subjects.

The score for almost two decades ranged between "D+" and "D-"; and the single-letter-grade was never treated as "Good News" in the media or by the nation's employers.

The problem is that academic under-achievement is far great ...

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