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zoom rader wrote:When PNM kids don't perform. The PNM goverment offers them secret scholships, lowers entry requirements for courses. I remember one PNM bigwig saying Indian teachers don't teach African kids and Indian schools don't accept African kids.
Would you send kwame to a Sat school?
rspann wrote:zoom rader wrote:When PNM kids don't perform. The PNM goverment offers them secret scholships, lowers entry requirements for courses. I remember one PNM bigwig saying Indian teachers don't teach African kids and Indian schools don't accept African kids.
Would you send kwame to a Sat school?
Does Sat want Kwame in his schools? If the answer is no, why doesn't he?
As far as I know he accepts them. Problem is most afro parents see his schools idol worship.rspann wrote:zoom rader wrote:When PNM kids don't perform. The PNM goverment offers them secret scholships, lowers entry requirements for courses. I remember one PNM bigwig saying Indian teachers don't teach African kids and Indian schools don't accept African kids.
Would you send kwame to a Sat school?
Does Sat want Kwame in his schools? If the answer is no, why doesn't he?
This is not true. There are quite a number of Africans attending Hindu schools. They even assimilate with the Hindu culture bhagans and all.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:rspann wrote:zoom rader wrote:When PNM kids don't perform. The PNM goverment offers them secret scholships, lowers entry requirements for courses. I remember one PNM bigwig saying Indian teachers don't teach African kids and Indian schools don't accept African kids.
Would you send kwame to a Sat school?
Does Sat want Kwame in his schools? If the answer is no, why doesn't he?
I know of schools in central that dont want the kwame and diokeek..A coworker tried to register her daughter and another parent simply told her to not waste her time...The parent only pointed to her hair and my coworker got the point...So said so done, teachers didnt even pay attention to her..
As per your question(rspann) If I put my answer here people go tell me I racist...so id check you by the garage and tell you the reasons...lolll
rspann wrote:I don't want no racist answer eh. Is there any reason why mostly Indians always top SEA?
rspann wrote:I don't want no racist answer eh. Is there any reason why mostly Indians always top SEA?
Gladiator wrote:This is not true. There are quite a number of Africans attending Hindu schools. They even assimilate with the Hindu culture bhagans and all.shake d livin wake d dead wrote:rspann wrote:zoom rader wrote:When PNM kids don't perform. The PNM goverment offers them secret scholships, lowers entry requirements for courses. I remember one PNM bigwig saying Indian teachers don't teach African kids and Indian schools don't accept African kids.
Would you send kwame to a Sat school?
Does Sat want Kwame in his schools? If the answer is no, why doesn't he?
I know of schools in central that dont want the kwame and diokeek..A coworker tried to register her daughter and another parent simply told her to not waste her time...The parent only pointed to her hair and my coworker got the point...So said so done, teachers didnt even pay attention to her..
As per your question(rspann) If I put my answer here people go tell me I racist...so id check you by the garage and tell you the reasons...lolll
Shiva boys Hindu college for example has a healthy afro population.
Also one must remember the small church influence in the African population that denigrates Hindus and their religion and would not even want their kids to walk in front of an sdms school.
Slavery is not an excuse for the lack of performance. If anything it should be a motivator. Some of the brightest and most brilliant people I know are of African decent.
The problem is Trini culture. The party and carnival culture. Where Monday could fall on Sunday and you don't care. Where the most important thing is what soca song Machel sing etc. These nonsense are bring pushed down the throats of children today to force a Trini culture resulting in massive mental destruction .
Intelligence does not come with race. Everyone has the same aptitude to learn. The environment and support structure is what determines the performance of the individual.
Gladiator wrote:Slavery is not an excuse for the lack of performance. If anything it should be a motivator. Some of the brightest and most brilliant people I know are of African decent.
doggal wrote:Does anyone have the link for the list of students and their passes?
MaxPower wrote:Has anyone noticed an increase in domestic violence?
Went to check on my nephew who did quite well and he mentioned a few of his classmates got a cut ass for not performing. I guess this is normal this time around and some parents should be ashamed of themselves.
Blaze d Chalice wrote:doggal wrote:Does anyone have the link for the list of students and their passes?
rspann wrote:I don't want no racist answer eh. Is there any reason why mostly Indians always top SEA?
Ben_spanna wrote:Blaze d Chalice wrote:doggal wrote:Does anyone have the link for the list of students and their passes?
You DO know that every year it’s published in the news papers the day AFTER the results are given to the students, so if you go Today’s (Saturday) papers you would have that mysterious list.
Ben_spanna wrote:Rather disturbing that some of you think that parents push their kids to do better to “ keep up with the Jones “, sad actually, but I’m sure most of you who think this way don’t have children.
remember not everyone can afford to pay for a private school, so they have to make the best of our local education system.
doggal wrote:If I WERE in T&T I would have done so...no need to be hasty in your replies especially when you cannot provide what I asked for . .
Rgds
Redress10 wrote:All good and well but I think that we can agree that none of these children are "gifted" or even demonstrate high functioning intelligence.
Can any of them build a computer from scratch or even a circuit board? Can they conversate in a foreign language or maybe even 2.
I think we keep misunderstanding what intelligence really is. If these kids were to be exposed to their peers from the developed world they would be enturely embarrassed. Always remember that the smartest ppl in the US and UK etc are too intelligent for university. They are identified early on and pulled from formal education.
So after all this stress to perform at SEA, CXC and CAPE and possibly university where do these people end up? Where do they work? Trinidad doesn't have a space program or even a silicon valley that gires the "best and brightest".
I know ppl who had open scholarships who couldn't even get proper employment. So what's the point?
Redress10 wrote:All good and well but I think that we can agree that none of these children are "gifted" or even demonstrate high functioning intelligence.
Can any of them build a computer from scratch or even a circuit board? Can they conversate in a foreign language or maybe even 2.
I think we keep misunderstanding what intelligence really is. If these kids were to be exposed to their peers from the developed world they would be enturely embarrassed. Always remember that the smartest ppl in the US and UK etc are too intelligent for university. They are identified early on and pulled from formal education.
So after all this stress to perform at SEA, CXC and CAPE and possibly university where do these people end up? Where do they work? Trinidad doesn't have a space program or even a silicon valley that gires the "best and brightest".
I know ppl who had open scholarships who couldn't even get proper employment. So what's the point?
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Redress10 wrote:All good and well but I think that we can agree that none of these children are "gifted" or even demonstrate high functioning intelligence.
Can any of them build a computer from scratch or even a circuit board? Can they conversate in a foreign language or maybe even 2.
I think we keep misunderstanding what intelligence really is. If these kids were to be exposed to their peers from the developed world they would be enturely embarrassed. Always remember that the smartest ppl in the US and UK etc are too intelligent for university. They are identified early on and pulled from formal education.
So after all this stress to perform at SEA, CXC and CAPE and possibly university where do these people end up? Where do they work? Trinidad doesn't have a space program or even a silicon valley that gires the "best and brightest".
I know ppl who had open scholarships who couldn't even get proper employment. So what's the point?
Totally agree....where do they end up?? All that studying and Trinidad is a sheithole when it comes to jobs for certain skills...
My brother has a 3.9 GPA finishing a masters program in cyber security at FIU and people here watch his resume like is madarin they reading..His next best step is to do a PHD and stay up there
l33t2 wrote:shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Redress10 wrote:All good and well but I think that we can agree that none of these children are "gifted" or even demonstrate high functioning intelligence.
Can any of them build a computer from scratch or even a circuit board? Can they conversate in a foreign language or maybe even 2.
I think we keep misunderstanding what intelligence really is. If these kids were to be exposed to their peers from the developed world they would be enturely embarrassed. Always remember that the smartest ppl in the US and UK etc are too intelligent for university. They are identified early on and pulled from formal education.
So after all this stress to perform at SEA, CXC and CAPE and possibly university where do these people end up? Where do they work? Trinidad doesn't have a space program or even a silicon valley that gires the "best and brightest".
I know ppl who had open scholarships who couldn't even get proper employment. So what's the point?
Totally agree....where do they end up?? All that studying and Trinidad is a sheithole when it comes to jobs for certain skills...
My brother has a 3.9 GPA finishing a masters program in cyber security at FIU and people here watch his resume like is madarin they reading..His next best step is to do a PHD and stay up there
Rel confused about the points two of you trying to make.
Top SEA students are gifted - it's not just rote learning, they need to disciplined, mature under pressure and I know many who have moved on to great things in life. I don't see why you need to bash them, SEA isn't perfect, no standardized exam especially when given at such a young age, is perfect.
There are many other gifted students who would not have had success in SEA. It's just the way it is, doesn't mean the top ones aren't.
The issue with T&T, which I alluded too in the other Vene thread concerning work ethic, is that we don't have the environment to push ppl to greater things.
We don't have top researchers pushing the envelope in their fields. We have a few people who are good and it goes to their heads. Instead of building up potential great students they put them down and denegrate them (not all but happened to me).
We have lots of potentially extremely smart and ambitious ppl in Trinidad who end up getting ruined in UWI or in the work place. In the US or UK they'd blossom.
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