THE EDITOR, Sir:
IN REGARD to Dr. Ralph Thompson's analysis of the Caribbean Examination Council's CSEC results in English A and mathematics for 2005, we would like to point out the following:
Campion College entered ALL students from the fifth form for English A and mathematics.
This is school policy. Of the total age cohort of 209 who were entered for the examination, two students migrated long before the examinations, reducing our cohort to 207. Of this number, 178 gained grade one, 23 grade two, six grade three and four grade four, giving the school a pass rate of 98.06 per cent. Campion College is justifiably proud of this achievement.
It is important when an analysis of this nature is done and with the degree of accuracy of percentage to the first two places of decimal, that the school be contacted to determine the cohort at the time of the examination.
It is well known that the school cohort changes during the year as students frequently migrate, especially in the face of the harsh economic climate of today. Is it that the 'powers that be' cannot trust the integrity of the principals to give them the correct figure?
I am, etc.,
R.D. REID
Headmaster,
Campion College
