Dear Editor,

Isn’t the JC debacle symptomatic of what is happening in our society? Isn’t this the perfect example of the win-at-all-costs end justifying the means mentality which “importing” for sports purposes by high schools signals? How long will we continue to make excuses and come up with nice sounding phrases to protect the guilty? We need to start calling a spade a spade and take action.

Isn’t this the same type of unethical behaviour that is happening in sports in our high schools, where schools recruit youngsters for sports and then cover it up, because they believe that there is no disgruntled insider who will spill the beans? Why cover up if there is nothing wrong with what you are doing?

Do you think that it is only happening with regard to sports? In our schools we have institutionalised corruption and injustice, and too many of us are willing to look the other way. The Inter-secondary Schools Spots Association, the governing body for high school sports in Jamaica, would want us to believe that it knows nothing about it and cannot do its own investigations to find out the truth. The double standards and mixed messages we continue to send our children!

Why should we be alarmed when things like what is disclosed at JC come to light? Idiocy and corruption strive in darkness.

Lascelve Graham

long1@flowja.com