With the current state of teachers in Jamaica, I am happy that I had taken the leap of becoming an Educational Entrepreneur. Teaching like many jobs will have to change. It is no longer a safe job, with a sure pension.
There are approximately 50000 more spaces needed for students in the education system, but the government does not have the money to build the schools. Frankly speaking if those very schools are built they will become white elephants in the very near future.
Unemployed teachers and those who are in teachers college need to stop thinking about the classroom setting and start thinking about online and other modes of teaching. Teachers will now see themselves venturing into a new profession called tutoring.
There will always be persons to teach, but the questions that arise are: Who will these persons be? Where will they need the service; and are you able to deliver that service effectively?
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