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Lowest-performing primary school students to be placed in one school

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Director of Education Clare Browne

The Ministry of Education has introduced a targeted initiative aimed at enhancing the education of underperforming primary school students by grouping Level 4 and select Level 3 students at Clare Hall Secondary School. 

“The 12 percent, those students that are in the level 4 and the level 3, particularly the level 4…those students would have scored less than 100. And what we intend to do with those students, we put them all in one place,” Director of Education Clare Browne revealed.

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He elaborated on the program’s structure, detailing, “We’re going to give them three teachers, a teacher that is going to be focused on literacy, a teacher that is going to be focused on numeracy, and then a teacher that would do with them some math and science. So those three teachers will be with them all the time. Then they are going to do the technical vocational subjects with the rest of the school.”

Browne says these students will also be able to do the usual school subjects.

The secondary school entry exam results are categorized into four levels, with Level 1 representing the highest achievement

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Comments (5)

  • Faithful national July 6, 2024, 12:25 PM

    The decision to place all the lowest performing students in the 2024 “Common Entrance” examinations on one school is, in my humble opinion, a most backward step in this day and age and clearly reflects the antiquated and unelightened vision of the current crop of “professionals” entrusted to take our educational development to the next level. Will the new school be named the Clare Browne Duncey Bat School, 2024???? That, I can assure you, will become its official name.
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    • Anonymous July 9, 2024, 11:21 AM

      Agree
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  • FeedUp July 8, 2024, 8:36 AM

    Didn’t NTTC existed but y’all cut it out to use the school for a “hospital” but now you see the need for a school for the students who shouldn’t be placed in the mainstream learning environment? It didn’t only start at Common Entrance, the ministry of Education started placing students with impairments all over the place how will they perform, shouldn’t there be an initiative from the onset to retard this next step?
    It’s ashame to see you try and reintroduce an initiative that once existed because then it didn’t make sense to have it, but now look back to square one because it is a NECESSITY for our students to excell.
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  • Sonia Spencer August 20, 2024, 5:53 PM

    Think again, this is not right, we are at an advance stage, why deprive our youths, in my opinion, they should not be treated unfair due to the fact that all horses don’t run at the same pace. This will be the bigest mistake, and the stronger will help the weaker, all that is needed is patience and enduring grace
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  • inchristirest August 28, 2024, 10:12 AM

    If this is the case, the student should be able to, with the help of these special teachers, attain a certain percentage and at the end of the school year should be placed in a normal secondary school. If not they will never know their true potential. Another suggestion is that, is not everyone who is good at theory, but very good at practical. We now need to observe what our children are interested in and begin to direct then in that field. Some ,students are doing subjects they will never use in their professional life. We need to change our curriculum to suit the needs of our children.
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