Cultural Catalyst living life through a creative lens, with a special focus on celebrating DANCE! Follow @ DancersofJamaica on IG.
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So many Jamaican kids are unaware of the island’s vast cultural landscape including Ska music & dance and there’s not much fun in simply telling them about it, so after watching some archival videos we got up and danced😁
Cheers to my grade 7 Social Studies students who also did very well on their tests🙌🏽🙌🏽
Out of 38 students only 5 didn’t secure a pass mark, but we are already resolved to ensure they all achieve an improved score in the upcoming December exam session.
Big up my grade 8 History students, they all passed their Six Weeks test🙌🏽🙌🏽 Now their confidence builds towards Mid Sessional exams in December👊🏽 I also taught them History, Social Studies and Geography in grade 7.
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Big up my grade 8 History students, they all passed their Six Weeks test🙌🏽🙌🏽 Now their confidence builds towards Mid Sessional exams in December👊🏽 I also taught them History, Social Studies and Geography in grade 7.
ART’ical congratulations @damianmarley 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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And now I’m teaching 14 different classes across 4 different grades and I’m still waiting on my October salary. Not only are some of us underpaid but we frequently also suffer from being paid late. Think about this when your kids don’t have good teachers, schools abuse them.
The disintegrated & at times nonexistent sidewalks are treacherous for us pedestrians. Yesterday I walked from HWT along Molynes rd after 6pm & it was dark, I was only saved by familiarity of the crevices, knowing there’s a gully & car lights, without that the whole rd was dark.
The roads are terrible. The roads are so terrible. If it’s not a portal from kgn to japan it’s unruly civilian drivers (who are as bad as the taxis now tbh) and then at night you can’t even see the roads with how the brights are glaring and blinding. I’m tired grandpa
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What if I told you that that exact insulting 3-word phrase is also commonly hurled among students. High school students from grade 7 upwards are quite foul-mouthed and crass with each other.
Opposition Member of Parliament Michael Phillips has apologised for using an expletive during an incident at Gordon House after Tuesday’s House sitting, but says the Government’s account of what happened is false.
Read more at the link: cvmtv.com/breaking/phillips-…
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I would like to bolt all desks and chairs to the classroom floor, to avoid the ear splitting screech from students constantly dragging them😠
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Tuesday is definitely looking like staying home besides even if I make it out I know more than half my students won’t attend school sigh ….that means a whole day of tests that will get pushed back to next week.. oh well
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Earlier this week the Tivoli Dance Troupe performed at the 6th annual Edward Seaga Lecture, which was hosted @EMCJamaica
The dance troupe is 50 years old and was initiated by Mr Seaga who saw life as a choreography, and sought to use the arts to develop a community 🙏🏽
Heritage day 2026 is made so much more special seeing students Ardenne Dance Troupe & the drummers perform, and in so doing help to preserve the rich creative & artistic heritage of Jamaica👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I look forward to school next week as it’s Six Weeks test time, which means no lesson planning and absolute silence in the classrooms.
On repeat shall be instructions..
Clear your desks we are about to begin,
Write your names,
Begin please,
15 minutes remaining,
Time’s up”😁
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When you give your grade 8 history students an assignment to build their own ancient civilisation, and one young lady produces this model😊🥇
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School finally let out at 2pm so they cancelled the last class, by then it was already raining and the streets downtown along with the potholes were filled with water. Hoping everyone got home safely as I noted dangerous flooding kept some people from making it home in St Thomas
Now here we all are stuck at school, some teachers stuck in staffroom can’t go to their classes kids too need to change their class and can’t sigh
MOE is so unresponsive in these situations because today should have been online classes or at least half day dismissal.
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Now here we all are stuck at school, some teachers stuck in staffroom can’t go to their classes kids too need to change their class and can’t sigh
MOE is so unresponsive in these situations because today should have been online classes or at least half day dismissal.
Kids today are bombarded by so much info, across social media, & when left to decide what’s important they will default to what’s trending. Sadly it’s the algorithms that are doing the ‘influencing’ of information & not parents.
Recently met Gr 7 kids that don’t know Miss Lou😔
Jamaican kids not knowing current events and how to identify our icons isn't funny, it was at first until it started to become a pattern and, we have to blame the parents.
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Teachers having to become detectives to ensure the grades are recorded correctly, because students do not write their names on their work🙄😏🤦🏽♀️ Btw the exact instruction, to write their names on their paper, was repeated throughout the session🤷🏽♀️
