Comments on: A Donkey doing a Dog’s work: The Grade 1 entrance fiasco and the Chief Justice https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice Journalism for Citizens Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:13:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Nave https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1905 Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:06:19 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1905 CJ is doing politics…He is patronizing his electorate…the Sinhala Buddhist …the new rich… and… the Sons and Daughters of 1956 who support communalism and militraism now in full control in our politics …the culmination of the process started with the Citizenship Act of 1948 the “Sinhalization of Sri Lanka State”…Don’t expect coconuts from a Arecanut tree…their fight is to didvide the cake which is not enough to share among this Greedy small section in our society… just 38 schools…

Better if Ravaya and other publicists think about of our eduactional system which reprpoduces the inequalities in societiey…caste, class (in terms of economic wealth, ethnicity and bureaucratic power), region and religion, sex etc….the schools given to Provincial Councils are poor and backward…but funds are not allocating properly to develop them and the so called Provincial Laedaers doesn’t have an approach and attitudes to chnage the statusquo…

This will need a long article…but I will stoip here

]]> By: suntzu https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1904 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:49:07 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1904 punitham…I agree with what you say, except for the part where you say that this is a ‘Buddhist country!’
I belive that Sri Lanka is a country with a majority of Buddhist’s…(69 to 70 percent)…the remaining 30 percent as we all know is made up of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. If 100 percent of the population in Sri Lanka had been Buddhist, we could call this a Buddhist country…but not otherwise!

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1903 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:40:37 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1903 JM only shows how faaaaaar our education has yet to go.

]]> By: JM https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1902 Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:53:00 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1902 I mostly agree with CJ’s set of recommendations. There’s nothing particularly radical or groundbreaking here. It simply formalises the existing standards and processes. Why should we spend so much time and energy developing our schools, if people not from our race, caste or social class are going to benefit from it. We are not that altruistic. I’m an Anandian and it’s principally a Sinhalese (Buddhist/Govigama) school. There are many other state and privately funded schools for Muslims and communities. These left wing bureaucrats and their NGO puppet-masters must be out of their minds to attempt this at a time when the Prime Minister, Army Commander, Navy Commander and the Defence Secretary are all Anandians. We don’t want to study in Zahira or Hindu College and we don’t want you in Ananda.

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1901 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:22:47 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1901 Report from Asian development bank saying that Sri Lanka has a gap between the rich and the poor widening fast tells us all – omnipresent and disgusting political patronage kills off social mobility. In a Buddhist country? Buddhism must be saved from some people.

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1900 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:22:57 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1900 This is regrettably a recapitulation of our politics of the last six decades. That means there must be an overhaul of our whole thinking about public policies. As everything is connected with everythingelse, public policies overlap human rights, aims and principles of good education, social mobility, social harmony …….. basically it is all about good governance.

]]> By: groundviews https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1899 Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:45:25 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1899 School admissions

See First to chaos, then to school. Graphic from Sunday Times.

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1898 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 06:13:22 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1898 The culture of patronage has ramified all areas of the society to the detriment of the country.

]]> By: punitham https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1897 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:54:52 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1897 Thanks, Sanjana.

I was a teacher and I’m horrified to see that ‘parental consideration’ comes into the equation. If schools select pupils on ‘catchment area basis’ teachers will do their best and all schools will then improve.
Patronage of various kinds has been killing Sri Lanka and has been responsible for the widening gap between i. the rich and the poor and ii. the Sinhalese and the minorities and the resultant iii. loss of social harmony.

]]> By: sittingnut https://groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1896 Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:59:49 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/2007/08/08/a-donkey-doing-a-dogs-work-the-grade-1-entrance-fiasco-and-the-chief-justice/#comment-1896 i don’t think partial and selective commentary of this issue will lead to informative debate here or elsewhere.

it is complicated and need to be covered in full if covered at all.

at the very least it would be more informative if you can give the details of the earlier circular which was found have violated fundamental rights, after an application by some of parents of rejected children. what were the criteria there?
why is there support from government supported schools with religious background and oldboys unions to old circular?

and it would certainly be interesting to know what the alternatives mr sunanada deshapriya will support given his blog is named vikalpa.

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