Where ‘failures’ flourish

Graduates turning the page at Edith Dalton James High School, an institution known for “working with the lowest performing students from PEP”, as acknowledged by principal Dr Orlando Worges, are contending that retention at the primary level should not readily replace the intervention structure operating across the island’s secondary schools. “They shouldn’t be kept back,” said 19-year-old Justin Wallace, who graduated in 2024 as deputy head boy while establishing, in grade 11, the Male…