The Editor, Sir:

I write in support of the bold move made by Dr Grace Camille Munroe in choosing Mile Gully High School in Manchester, as part of the Centres of Excellence Project under the Mutual Building Societies.

The statistics have shown that we are getting better results and more publicity from and for the non-traditional high schools than before.

Credit must be given to the young and charming Minister of Education Andrew Holness and other educators who ensured that equality in the distribution of the students is being effected.

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Prior to this, teachers at non-traditional high schools longed for the day when they would not have been judged by where they teach and the results they received.

It is also a reality that, for the most part, the boasting came through athletics and art forms.

I am now seeing that students who gained certain averages, and previously were sent to the traditional high schools, are now lining up for the non-traditional schools and they have been doing well.

Thank God, these non-traditional high schools will no longer be stained by the news of fighting, fears and underachievement.

A new and bright day has dawned on the education system where students will make their teachers proud and every teacher will be recognised, wherever he is.

I am, etc.,

Everton Tyndale