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Trinidad and Tobago’s first Prime Minister Eric Williams said the country’s future lies in our children’s bookbags.
If so, then pray.
In the “Trinidad & Tobago Social Studies for Primary School: Standard 2” book, author Kevin Jeanville listed crime shows and letters to the editor among the country’s viable solutions to crime.
And there, like Big Brother, stood a photograph of Ian Alleyne in a bullet-proof vest with Crime Watch’s email address and the message: “Ian Alleyne and crime watch… Hotting up De Place!”
Is the Trinidad and Tobago Government, through our tax dollars, teaching every child between the age of seven and nine that an unusually flamboyant man who loves poking around dead bodies and uses his cell phone while driving is considered an answer to crime?
If ever there was a case against State-sponsored education that was probably it.
What next? Will home economics students be asked to watch “Desperate Housewives?”
Are we now in a world where Crime Watch is considered a mainstream, positive programme? Is Alleyne our great hope for a law abiding society?
No wonder sex and drugs are on the rise in the schools. The little buggers are trying to cope with the messed up world they are about to inherit.
Either that or they are auditioning to replace Chandresh Sharma and Anil Roberts in Cabinet.
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Needless to say, we hotting we head though. Talk about not taking good advice..
I didn’t think about that!
Sigh. I pity the children with that choice. Police or Ian Alleyne.
Setups, oui!
But no sex education or Civics or moral studies
getting free advertising from the MoE, there . talk about dumbed down.
They should be teaching kids to trust and rely on police officers, instead they are teaching them to trust and rely on a crude reality show host and former ruling party candidate.
U kidding…. Goes to show once ur contacts are good u can get ur book on textbook rental
What part of Ian Alleyne is a role model?
If Crimewatch is crime fighting then the P.T. Barnum & Bailey Circus is wildlife conservation……….hear nah!!!!
Is this a parody
Nope. Not this time.
Oh lord, we reach
These people are sickening to put this flaming drama queen in a text book for young impressionable minds.
nothing surprises me anymore
Well my books have to make high school literature now. They must. Every time you think you have seen it all..
It just seems surreal. Children aged 7 to 9 being introduced to Ian Alleyne and Crime Watch by the Ministry of Education.
The textbook was printed in 2012 btw.
Let’s ask the reviewers on the text book committe?
Why would anyone think that between the ages of 7 to 9 is a good time to be introduced to Ian Alleyne and Crime Watch?
That is what I would like to know.
This is only obscene because we allow it….who the ass sits on the text book review committee?
Is only because Lasana write it I believe this, eh….
What to raaasness is dis?
I had to go and come back to this post yes! And ah still trying to digest this lil revelation
What??!! Nah! Nah nah nah!
So wait nah! How come nobody never mentioned this before?! Is a good thing I doh have chirren to go thru this yes
Yes Lasana! Yuh too lie. You have got to be kidding me. What total and utter rubbish. A host whose command of the English language is so limited and who is highly critical of persons and not in a constructive manner leaves much to be desired. Dr. Tim! You sanctioned this?
wtf
The textbook was printed in 2012.
Disgusting
Seriously. What propaganda press printed that
What were we thinking in 2010.
No one should have to tell them that this is wrong.
Are they trying to engender enmity in the populous?
I’m trying to find the exact sequence of words that would adequately capture my views on this latest development………buh it hard, it relly hard!!!!!
This is obscene.
Rhoda just when you thought the assness reached it’s climax………
I wish it was a joke Susan. That is a screenshot from the textbook and it is on page 288.
And mind you, this man aired the sexual assault of a mentally challenged minor.
For me to eff up as consistently and as completely as this government I would have to make a mammoth effort.
It wouldn’t even have enough hours in the day!
Is Wired 686 the T&T version of the Onion? If not well this textbook has to be a brainwashing exercise of the highest order! OMG
This cannot be for real, tell me it is some kind of joke.
Unadulterated BS.
There is a screenshot in the article and it is page 288.
Just spotted in daughter’s textbook and couldn’t believe it myself.
And they laughed at Dan is the Man in the Van.
Lol
say what??? need to digest this
Speech less
The bright side, if there is a bright side is at least the children only reading about it and hopefully will never see the rubbish live on television
Reading with meh mout open…
Lasana yuh lieeeeee. This cannot be real.
Ahmmmmmm
I actually don’t know what to say. Smh
This is not even a laughing matter. I am disturbed that this would be allowed to happen. Our education system is getting worse and worse. Steupssssssss.
For all of us who don’t know what to say, Sparrow has already spoken. Twice. First in “Education:” “Children go to school and learn well/otherwise later on in life yuh go ketch real hell…”
And later at the end of “Dan is the Man in the Van”: “If mih head was bright, ah woulda be a damn fool!”