Set limits for students
Dear Editor,
In the TEENAGE Observer of October 4, I read the “Meet the Schools” presentations by two schools – Jamaica College and Green Pond High.
There were marked differences in the general mode and decorum of the presentations. The differences reflected a measure of the expected general behaviour and academic performances of both institutions.
Whereas the photographs entered by Jamaica College showed a well groomed school population focused on school clubs activities and study, Green Pond photographs displayed an institution with the main focus on popular dance and entertainment.
Viewing the photographs from Green Pond High presented the general aura that this was not an institution where study was carried out.
It is time for the schools administrators of the so-called new secondary schools to step up to the block and realise that improvement in academic performance starts with the general behaviour of the schools’ population. Since the school administration gave the go-ahead for the general mode of the presentation, limits should have been set as to how the students should behave. The photograph with the young woman holding up the front of her dress is unacceptable.
Paul B Rose
prose101@gmail.com
