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Why Centralizing Education is Bad for St. Martin
The full title if this article by Rhoda Arrindell (shared by House of Nehesi Pubslishers) is “Why Centralizing Education is Bad for St. Martin and St. Martiners, in Both Territories (Part 1).”
It is no mystery that when a nation wants to measure its growth and development as a nation, it looks at the outputs of its education system to see if the investments in education have yielded the expected returns. This should be no different for St. Martin.
Considering the investments in education in St. Martin over the years (from 1849 in the North and 1850 in the South) and with the recent announcement by The Hague that it will move to centralize education, among other areas, in St. Martin, I believe this is an opportune time for us to more closely examine the efforts and outputs of our education system(s). Such an examination would permit us to see how the latest attempts by Europe will impact the growth of the St. Mart