Renee Rattray

@Gordonswaby And what has the government done to remedy this Gordon? Don’t think they and the vast majority of Jamaicans see this as urgent.

Good Morning Jamaica, always remember: At the Primary level: -A third of students cannot read after 6 years of primary school - 56% cannot write -57% could not identify information in a simple sentence At the secondary level: - Only 28% of students passed 5 or more subjects including both English and Math - 70% of the 18-year-old cohort left secondary school in 2018 without a certificate Source: The Jamaica Education Transformation Commission Report, 2021 — also known as the Patterson Report ( Professor Orlando Patterson) . I served as a Commissioner. As far as I know, things are not much worse...or much better. Until we can fix this at scale, nothing else matters. Not AI, not productivity...nothing. Our people can't do much if they can't read or write. Have a great rest of day.

@jaevionn Can’t keep doing things the same way myself, so planning a different route.

@RattrayRenee Yu rest and come back, ready fi di fight now goodz?

Who are the advocates for educational improvement? Like who can you readily reference who is always in the media (traditional or non-traditional) discussing the challenges and calling for action? Who is working with parents to argue for a better educational system?

@jaevionn Jaevionn I could pull a million posts and many recordings of my speaking in various settings and saying all this - nearly word for word over the past 20 years. A couple years ago, I realized that this is by design. This is what Jamaica has chosen….all of us are complicit

A lot is in train right now for education reform that gives me a glimmer of hope but I am optimistically cautious. We’ve been here before. Critically, the transformation requires radical changes at the early childhood level. Without that, we’ll tinker with what needs to be done.

Parents have a critical role to play but we can’t ignore the fact that in many households, for various reasons, parents aren’t able to (and it’s not that they’re all careless). Children with learning difficulties require expert attention that parents can’t give.

Do teachers teach reading? Do they know how?

@jaevionn NUFF PRETTY TALK, NO ACCOUNTABILITY & MANY ENABLERS

70% of children in grade seven reading at grade three level. What were the interventions to address the challenges faced by these students as the tests would have shown this at least three years ago? What schools and communities do these children come from?

@jaevionn NO STRATEGY. NO CONSISTENCY. NO REAL PLAN FOR INTERVENTION.

Ready, set, go! Watch the fake outrage for 9 dys. Watch a lazy media ask the wrong ?s. Watch policymakers make this about Pembroke Hall. Watch teachers blame parents & parents accept things as they are & demand nothing more. Watch us go back to doing nothing. Repeat…🇯🇲

So excited to see the work we have been doing for the last year and a half take shape. Much more to come…Transforming pedagogy from the inside out!

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@christoC56 Not many do

@RattrayRenee Know what I like about it? It's positive. Not a list of Dont's from which you learn very little. Do we do welcome letters, though?

Educators, if we want parental engagement and involvement, we must first communicate well from the start. I love this teacher’s welcome letter to parents.

Teachers who allow students to BE and to take up space are just sheer magic 👇🏾

@mcdonaldrachael Great Rachael. Where can I find the recording of the press conference and also information about the key priorities for transformation? Not seeing on MOE page.

Dr Adrian Stokes, chairman of the ETOC reminds us that transformation. is only effective if it leads to improvement in key performance indicators, specifically an increase in the # of students who are literate & numerate. #ETOCupdate

@MachelStewart Which?

@MachelStewart It’s exactly the way things were designed from hundreds of years ago…to divide and conquer and prevent us from moving forward. We seem to have reached a place of acceptance that this is the way it should be. I hope that a generation of young people will come and reorient us.

I would never swear for my own chldrn the way some people on this app swear for Andrew & Mark. It is mind blowing to see people I know engaging in the meanest exchanges, seldom around what is best for Jamaica - always about who did it better or worse. How do we change this? 🇯🇲

@lizzielevy Disappointed each time I come back here hoping for better. Hope u r good. 🙏🏾

@RattrayRenee Hello, Renee. How are you lol.