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[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

Recently sat down with @TheRumcast to talk about my new role as Senior Blender at Worthy Park! It was a good time and I was happy and honoured to be considered for the podcast.
Give it a listen!!! 🥃

https://t.co/B6yhBjsn3V

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

This whole thread is a good read.

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

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The #Jamaica Education Gender Gap: No Single Cause, No Simple Fix

(Photo: Martei Korley)

The performance gap is pervasive and measurable at every level. Girls consistently outperform boys from the Primary Exit Profile (PEP) examination onward, through CSEC at the secondary level, where the dropout rate is also higher for boys, and the gap is most dramatically visible at the tertiary level.

Nearly seven in ten students enrolled in Jamaican universities and other higher education institutions are women. Among female students who completed the primary exit exam, 73% went on to complete at least one CSEC subject, compared to just 53% of boys, and the gap at the CAPE (sixth form) level is even starker: 16.9% of girls versus 9% of boys.

The causes are layered and mutually reinforcing.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

Having had the opportunity to teach a 3rd grade class, I have seen this first hand. The boys' interest in learning was nil until I, as a male teacher, actively encouraged their participation in class.
Also, 90% of them did not have their fathers active in their lives.

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

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4. The feminisation of the teaching profession

UWI professor Errol Miller, who coined the term “male marginalisation” in Caribbean education, documented the changing demographics of the Caribbean teaching population, shifting from predominantly male to predominantly female. Qualitative observations suggest boys may be less engaged academically when taught predominantly by female teachers, and this is correlated with poor academic achievement. The near-absence of male role models in schools, particularly at the primary level, means many boys have no proximate model of male academic engagement.

[Wayne Chen @wcchen]

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4. The feminisation of the teaching profession

UWI professor Errol Miller, who coined the term “male marginalisation” in Caribbean education, documented the changing demographics of the Caribbean teaching population, shifting from predominantly male to predominantly female. Qualitative observations suggest boys may be less engaged academically when taught predominantly by female teachers, and this is correlated with poor academic achievement. The near-absence of male role models in schools, particularly at the primary level, means many boys have no proximate model of male academic engagement.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

@shasm Holy Rave July 25!!!!!

[scar @imfat]

JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.
JUNE IS GOING TO BE A GOOD MONTH.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

Shout out to the people who be rawdogging the work day. No coffee. Nuh likkle music/podcast/audiobook. Nothing!

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

So we just fully stop using graphic designers now???? Every flyer is AI. They all look the same! From corporate events to fish fry, they all look the same!!! 😑😑😑

[Seth Daniel @sethdanie1]

As a millennial:

Phone is for fun internet (shit posting)
Computer is for serious internet (booking flights)

[Kadeem @KadeemBarrett99]

Wins the Player of the Year in England but watch her not get nominated for Jamaica's Sports woman of the year 🙄
Congratulations Bunny Shaw, the greatest Jamaican Footballer of all-time

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

And yet, come next year, RJR Sportswoman of the year (even a nomination) gonna elude her AGAIN because if u nuh do athletics u nuh stand a chance.

[leighton @shearer39]

Bunny Shaw wins Player of the Year at the 2026 Women Football Awards. More awards are also in store for the Jamaican who is among the best players in the world.

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

JAMAICA ON TOP 🔥

Four teams qualified for the #WorldAthleticsChamps, three medals and a big world record 😮‍💨

A dominant showing from Jamaica at the #WorldRelays 👑

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

My love of songs which highlight giving bun may need to be studied! 🤣🫢

[The Notorious YGL @jahmekyagyal]

Well said and agreed

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

I wanna shout this from Blue Mountain Peak!!!

[♡Patti Cake♡ @3eece_]

STOP. BLOCKING. THE.INTERSECTIONS .

let's start there.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

Survived a FULL day of Yardmas Carnival after only 3 hours of sleep!!!!
Time to get me some sleep so I can be functional at work tomorrow so we can rebuild the rum stock. Lol.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

As a proper home body, only Soca Camp and SunRumFun can get me excited to be outside and they both did not disappoint!!!
Back into hibernation I go! (Unless a good oontz oontz party pops up, lol)

[Olivia Sinclair 🇯🇲 @OliviaSinJa]

Anyways. I owe Matthew some money actually. Soca Camp was tooooo good. 😭😭😭

[Gordon Swaby @Gordonswaby]

Good Morning Jamaica, always remember:

At the Primary level:
-A third of students cannot read after 6 years of primary school
- 56% cannot write
-57% could not identify information in a simple sentence

At the secondary level:
- Only 28% of students passed 5 or more subjects including both English and Math
- 70% of the 18-year-old cohort left secondary school in 2018 without a certificate

Source: The Jamaica Education Transformation Commission Report, 2021 — also known as the Patterson Report ( Professor Orlando Patterson) . I served as a Commissioner.

As far as I know, things are not much worse...or much better.

Until we can fix this at scale, nothing else matters. Not AI, not productivity...nothing.

Our people can't do much if they can't read or write.

Have a great rest of day.

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

@MarioEvon

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Jill Scott’s long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:

[Rum & Reason @PropsPV]

@ncbja Where is the public post acknowledging this delay? Why are your customers left in the dark?? Because surely you are not going to respond to each person individually.