More parents go online for melee & gossip - Hon. Fahie
Hon. Fahie made the disclosure during a graduation exercise held for the Isabella Morris Primary School at the Cane Garden Bay Community Centre yesterday, July 3, 2013. He was issuing congratulatory remarks to the graduating class at the time.
He added, “Even if [parents] don’t know how to use the computer, they have people print out the news for them…” He told parents that the same kind of determination was required in dealing with their children’s grades.
Power School is a web based technology, which allows parents, teachers and administrators to manage and use data related to students and the school stored in an electronic format.
The former Education Minister urged the students to remember to ‘dream big’ and to study while others are sleeping. True success, he related, is not determined by one’s wealth and even though money has its place, it should not be replaced by principles.
He endorsed the concepts of working hard and believing in prayer telling the students that he saw them as lawyers, politicians and stars through his lens. He also encouraged them to continue the work ethic that they displayed at Primary Five when they arrived at high school.
Hon. Fahie also made a special appeal to parents at the graduation exercise, “A lot of parents work hard with their children up to Primary Five and then start to disappear when they reached to high school, and it’s something that boggles my mind because that is the time you’re going to need to be with them more than ever.”
Guest speaker, Hon. Archibald C. Christian, told the students that they were not missing anything in their lives by not having Facebook accounts. He encouraged them to not succumb to peer pressure and to be themselves.
The At-Large Representative also told the students to talk to their parents about any and everything and asked parents to be aware of what their children were listening to and doing on the internet. “There is a sea of information on the internet, both good and bad,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Principal Sylvia Adams told the students that even though they were about to embark on a new journey in entering high school, they needed to remember that their work has just begun.
Ten students graduated from the school with the Valedictorian emerging as K’Jae Thompson and Salutatorian being Klemon Thompson.
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20 Responses to “More parents go online for melee & gossip - Hon. Fahie”
I tell you, problems never ceases, but daily increases!!
Now, I have been to graduations all over the place, and I must say these BVI graduation ceremonies need to be kept in check. There is no way in hell a graduation for thirty something, twenty something or eighty something PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS need to go on and on for hours. Especially when some of these speeches want to make you barf. Keep the focus on the children and respect people's time. It is the day for the graduates not everybody else with their own hidden agendas. Keep the graduations on a time schedule for god and heaven sake.