Jackass sey de worl' no level. Jackass sey inna primary an' prep school dem a gi de parents dem de homework and de pickney a get de grade.

There are tons of you two-footers who Jackass knows spend a lot of your time doing grades one and two and three homework. I am not sure about the grades after, because Jackass does not have any experience with those higher grades (or the highest grades) as yet, but he knows about those early ones, because he has had to deal with quite a few assignments.

And that is what they are; assignments, not homework. Homework at that stage would be something like, 'if you have five apples, you give your sister two and your mother one and a half, how many would you have left to take to school?' To do that homework, all you would have to do is give the child the apples and let them actually do the giving away and the taking to school (although, chances are, getting them to give the fruit away would be a problem before working out the problem).

Information superhighway

But they are not getting stuff like that, are they? Nope. They are getting assignments that require looking up stuff on the Internet (if you are lucky and have access to the information superhighway) or in books, stuff that you have to cut out and paste and write up and put in folders and make cover designs for.

And, when a teacher gives a seven-year-old child an assignment to get pictures of the heart, the brain and the skeleton, write down their functions as well as what the blood does and then write a poem about each, who do they expect is going to do it? Certainly not the kid. And, when they give a project to look up couple angels, couple precious stones, couple trees and couple seas from the Bible to a six-year-old, who is still mixing up 'p' and 'b' and 'd', who do they think is going to do it?

Certainly not the child.

And the wickedest thing is, that at the end of the long list of instructions a note is often written, "parents, please make sure your child's homework is done". And, the double wickedest thing is that these assignments and projects are coming every single day, it feels like. One after the other after the other, non-stop, no ease up.

But, the world is not level at all, because not only are the parents and guardians doing the homework and the children getting the grades (the adults, of course, get the blame), but the homework is often putting the big ones to shame.

Come on, we did not get stuff like this in primary school and we have forgotten all the high school stuff we swotted to pass the exams. Who the hell remembers, off-hand, which plantation Sam Sharpe started the Christmas Rebellion on? Who remembers what the colour of blood is without the red stuff in it? Who even knew in the first place the names of five prophets in the Bible (not disciples, mind you)?

But, we have to look bright and not let the children know that we really do not have a single clue.

Jackass sey di worl' no level. Jackass sey im a go stop watch primary school quiz, cause it a put im to shame.