Zac That would be a significant undetaking, but understand...

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That would be a significant undetaking, but understand that there are those kind of college/universities in Haiti already.

My only beef and concerns when I hear and listen to people (anybody) talk about Haiti in term of education, the insinuation I got is that they thought that the high illeteracy in Haiti is lack of schools or almost nonexistent schools.

The problem education in Haiti has to do with a broken down primitive backward school system that has no much meaning, and a government that doesn't invest much in education for fear that an educated Haitian society will unseat them from their government post/positions.

Contrary to the public belief, Haiti is loaded with schools except they are barely functionable due to the incompetence and mediocrity of those in charge of those school, including the government's public school as well.

A simple example, the government built a college in my hometown a few years ago. The government only built the building but provided no furnitures, no books, no school's materials whatsoever, and pays the teachers once every 3 months and sometimes, the teachers won't get pay for 6 months.

The other big problem in Haitian school system is that after "certificat" students go to college only to continue studying and learning about Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines, Hygiene, and geography, still.

The Haitian College Education doesn't gear toward a career, or profession.

Yes there university of medicine, law, and ingeneering, and that all. People in Haiti don't go to school to study and major for example, in social work, radio broadcasting, technology, education, cooking, etc. etc...everyone who goes to college do with the only hope to go abroad/overseas.

It's like going abroad/overseas is a profession or a career.

Even those medical, law, and ingeneering universities are not well equipped and many of them don't even have a lab.

This is the problem with the education system in Haiti, incompetence and mediocrity.

Every June, the government administers a national standard test/exam to all those who are in Bac I & Bac II (Baccaloriate and Philo).

And therefore, the students must travel to the capital city of their respective department/state for the exam. The exams/tests last 3 days.

For example, those who live in the north (nan No) will go to Cap-Haitian for those who live in the west (l'ouest) will travel to P-A-P so on and so forth.

After the 3-day exam everybody goes home and they have to wait for a month to find out if they pass or fail. To find out, they have to listen to the radio which is giving the results by calling ONLY the names of those who pass.

The entire country then knows who pass and who fail the exams.

That is the most humiliating system there is on the planet.

Tiba, July 14 2009, 10:27 AM

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