Munro converts to Womanro

[Karl]

Good!

[Muadib]

Brownings ?

suh wait how dem seh Jamaica is 95% Black ???

[Muadib]

Good ting yuh still have school dat hold tuh dem principles.. dem nuh waan nuh gyal round di place !

[Jangle]

Me thinks Mosiah had a hand in this selection. Three pretty girls wid two brownings and one near-browning.....????? A must Kingston dem come fram. Probably one a dem uptown shools like Campion. MunroE just trying to improve dem gene pool.

[Historian]

Now it is in the right spot

Now the post is in the correct forum. On behalf of Don, thanks Mo.

[Mosiah]

But I thought this was official for 50 years!

Welcome, my sisters! Are they going to be boarders too!

[Stonigut]

Good start!

[Don1]

You perhaps can afford to "almost give up" on boys and their education.... That means you "give up" on ~50% of our school population

Fortunately many educators, parents and others interested in progress via a modern & tech savvy population are not inclined to "give up"

Kindly step aside with this ludicrous defeatist yappin' while we do our work

[Historian]

Might As Well

This thread (original post by Don1) is in the wrong forum, but hey, when a poster is stone drunk, such things will happen!

Now, I expect wholesale condemnation from what I’m going to say, but the truth is that I have long ago almost given up on boys ANYWHERE! Girls and women, for whatever reason, have long since impressed so much (from the lowly home to the office) that the changes here are, in my opinion, inevitable!

A few years ago I posted a report from the New York Times on the remarkable gender differential in tertiary institutions in the USA. The same applies in Jamaica and in ALL Caribbean countries, without a single exception! (This is one of the reasons why I will always be angry and utterly disappointed at Portia!)

Now, if only we could be more proactive in protecting our girls in Jamaica!

Having stated my feelings, LET THE WAR BEGIN!

[Time]

Follow di Leadah!

Time the Girls schools reciprocate. There are more All Girls schools than the reverse.

Cornwall did the same thing but the link has Munro not Cornwall Yes we need the girl school to do the same because the number of girl spaces was more that the number of boys spaces and today it go worse.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...-Munro-College

First girls at Cornwall College


Monday, September 09, 2013 | 1:41 PM

KINGSTON, Jamaica — History was created at the 117-year-old former all-boys high school Cornwall College in Montego Bay this morning when 10 female students started 12th grade (6th form) at the Montego Bay institution.

The way was cleared earlier this year when the school's board voted unanimously to accept the girls. A guard-of-honour formed by their male counterparts in lower and upper sixth form welcomed the new students Monday.





The young ladies were also presented with school tiepins courtesy of Old Boy Errol Watts who helped to organise the welcome ceremony.

The girls are from Montego Bay High and Mt Alvernia High as well as Knox College, Porus High in Manchester and William Knibb Memorial in Trelawny.
-Paul Reid



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[Gamma]

whaaaaaa ..... dem worthy of admission to campion tuh!!

[Willi]

Follow di Leadah!

Time the Girls schools reciprocate. There are more All Girls schools than the reverse.

[Don1]

Please do the necessaries with this....

Thanx

[Don1]

Munro becomes third all-boys’ school to admit girls at 6th form
BY GARFIELD MYERS Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau myersg@jamaicaobserver.com
Monday, September 09, 2013

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth — For more than 150 years, it has been a defining example of an all-boys’ school.

But last week, for the first time, Munro College at Potsdam in the hills of Malvern, St Elizabeth, formally registered girls for its academic programme.



Hide DescriptionMunro girls (from left) Mandie Salmon, Kadeisha Barnett and Shaquel Moses at the new sixth form facility last week. They are among the first girls to be registered as Munro students. (PHOTO: GREGORY BENNETT)

The girls, numbering “about 12”, school leaders say, are part of an expanded sixth form programme which has been made easier by the leasing from Government of classroom and accessory facilities across the road from Munro.
Those facilities became available following Education Minister Ronnie Thwaites’ decision to abandon plans by the previous Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Government to establish a rehabilitative education centre for disruptive boys there.

When the Jamaica Observer Central visited last Thursday, former principal of Munro Brandford Gayle, who now co-ordinates activities at the new facility, was quick to point out that girls are “not new” to the Munro campus. For years, neighbouring girls’ school Hampton has been part of exchange classroom programmes with Munro, he said.

However, Gayle said, “now they are registered for Munro. They are Munro and wear the uniforms (including ties) in the colours of Munro”.
Gayle — who, like new Munro Principal Arnaldo Allen, is an old boy of Munro — expects the number of girls entering the school for the sixth form programme to increase over the short to longer term.

“Who knows, we may soon have a Munro netball team or a girls’ fourby-one relay team at Champs,” quipped Gayle. He pointed out that two other boys’ schools — St George’s College in Kingston and Cornwall College in Montego Bay — have taken the lead in accepting girls to their sixth form programmes.
Allen, who has been seconded by the Ministry of Education from New Forest Secondary and Junior High for at least a year to replace Acting Principal Sonia Neil, applauded the move.

“I am all for educating both boys and girls,” said Allen, who has been credited for “transformational leadership” at New Forest Secondary where he has served since 1988 and as principal since 2009.

Dr Dave Lyn of the Munro board of management confirmed to the Observer Central that Neil, a longserving educator at Munro, is ill.
Gayle said the new sixth form facilities — once slated to become a Jamaica Football Federation academy before those plans were abandoned and replaced by the idea of a special school for unruly boys — are being used mainly for classes in “business and the humanities”.

Five of seven classrooms are now in use. There is also considerable dormitory space, which Gayle says may well be used in the future, while teachers have expressed an interest in renting flats at the complex.

Gayle said the new facilities were an invaluable addition to the school.
“Munro’s numbers increased this year to over 1,100 and I think they would have been pressured to find space,” he said.

When Thwaites announced his decision to change the role of the new facilities in mid-August, he said Hampton would be in partnership with Munro in using the facilities.

But, according to Gayle, “this year Hampton is not taking part…”
Girls accepted at Munro’s sixth form so far are from Hampton, St Elizabeth Technical High, Black River High, and Glenmuir.


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