More schools reinforce conditions to write CSEC

Nov 18, 2010 News

Various secondary school students, who did not qualify to write Mathematics and English at the upcoming Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), have been told that they could write the subjects through a private institution.
The source stated that those unfortunate students now have the option of either paying to write the subjects through a private institution or to be content with those that they would be writing at their respective schools.
When asked what about those students whose parents cannot afford to pay for them to write it privately, the source declined to comment.
According to the head teacher, the Education Ministry has been giving austere instructions that if a Grade eleven student does not possess (CSEC) inclination, that student should be excluded from the upcoming examination.
The recent (CSEC) Mathematics and English language examination results were taken into consideration by the Education Ministry and a decision was made to implement such policies, the source stated.
“They realise that they were spending a lot of money to sign up students to write the exams and when the results come out the students performed poorly,” said a teacher.
A ‘circular’ has been handed out to heads of secondary schools by the Ministry of Education, detailing the requirements of a student seeking CSEC subsidy. Based on the ‘circular’ a student must attain a score of not less than 50 per cent to be considered ‘successful’, at any subject at the level of the grade nine assessment.
It also establishes clear guidelines that the Education Ministry has been issuing to Secondary Schools around the country.
Head teachers and, to a lesser extent, heads of department, have not been consistently adhering to the tenets of the circular which addresses “readiness for Examination and Subsidy.”
Several weeks ago, three secondary schools have seen students being barred from writing CSEC or either prevented from writing various subjects, after their results from the ‘National Third Form Examination’ did not qualify them entries.
The most recent of them was Cummings Lodge Secondary School, where allegations were made that children are being prevented from writing Mathematics and English Language, at next year’s CSEC sitting.
But contrary to allegations made by the parents, sources from the said school confirmed that the institution has been following the policy of the Ministry of Education.
It states that ‘no student of Government-controlled institution must be entered for any subject for which the qualifying score was gained at the Grade Nine assessment or the Grade ten annual examination.”
Those policies were not accepted well by parents who have students attending the said school. One woman mentioned that the recent policy from the Ministry had appeared quite eccentric to her.

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