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Sep 15, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
The Kaieteur News of 4th September, 2012, reported that Chief Education Officer, Mr. Olato Sam ‘hinted that Lodge Secondary School will soon be named a Grade ‘A’ School as part of the Ministry of Education’s effort to raise the standard of the education institution’ when he visited the school.
Please permit me to inform those concerned, that the Ministry of Education cannot automatically name a school as a Grade A school. For a school to be categorized as Grade A, it has to have an enrolment of more than 599 students. That is, the student population of a school for three consecutive years determines its grade.
For Lodge Secondary to be re-graded as a Grade A Secondary School, it will need to have 599 students for the next three years. This is the Ministry of Education’s regulation. It is impossible and futile to classify Lodge Secondary as a Grade A secondary school when approximately 100 students attended last year.
This is another example of the Ministry of Education putting the donkey behind the cart. The intention of building Lodge Secondary was to relocate Central High School there. Of course, these plans were made without first consulting the parents of Central High School. When the parents and their children objected to being relocated to Lodge Secondary School, the Ministry of Education found that they had a building with few students.
It is my contention that Mr. Sam’s comments are meant to change the ‘mind-set’ of the parents and students of Central High School and to cover another clear error of the Ministry of Education rather than to uplift the status quo of Lodge Secondary School.
Mohammed S. Hussain
Dec 25, 2024
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