Santo Domingo.– The Sports Ministry started a project to improve the quality of life of the Dominican high-performance athletes living in the Olympic Village.
According to Luis Colpo Heredia, the director of the High Performance Program, in order to meet this goal a series of talks and seminars are being carried out by order of viceminister Enmanuel Trinidad Puello.
The program officially began last Thursday with the holding of a pep talk in the Olympic Village delivered by international coach Jissell Espinal.
Written by: anthonyC, 19 Jan 2013 12:05 PM
From: United States
Want to improve their quality of life?
How about getting a job and stop mooching off the productive members of society?
Written by: Danilo, 19 Jan 2013 1:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic, www.DuckyDeals.com
Actually, this is what I was recommending a few months ago. We should provide more support and focus to our top athletes. Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism.
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
@Dan,
You stated: """Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism."""
I could understand the first part of it, in terms of the achievement being inspirational to our youth; however, as for the second part of your claims, ""tourism"", I am at a loss as to how our meager gold medals count promote it, at least not from such olympic powerhouses such as: US; Canada; Germany; China; Australia; Russia; Jamaica; etc.; etc. Please expand upon this claim-it definitely has educational potential!
MJEV.
Written by: Danilo, 19 Jan 2013 3:38 PM
From: Dominican Republic, www.DuckyDeals.com
It's simple. Most people don't even know that there's a country called Dominican Republic. So it gets the name out there and get's people to google it.
From: United States, Fresh Water Paradise-NY Finger Lakes
@Dan,
I can buy your answer. However, then it really is a momentary opportunity immediately after the award, then, like the olympics themselves, it is forgotten.
I just hope that those googling DR don't focus too much on our rampant drugs problem and our judicial, government and military corruption, because they would be sure to stay the helll away from DR upon reading the numerous accounts attesting to those societal and governmental failures.
MJEV.
Written by: anthonyC, 19 Jan 2013 7:11 PM
From: United States
Written by: Danilo,
"Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism."
How does that help "Our Kids" Does it help them by filling their heads that if they play more sports instead of studying they will be rich and famous?
From: Dominican Republic
Yes...more athletes...less education. When we attract (laugh out loud) 10 million tourists...do you think they are coming due to athletic superstars??? That is #99 on the list of the top 100 reasons to visit this island.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2013 6:34 AM
From: Australia
Most "Dominican" Olympic medalists aren't really Dominicans anyway - raised elsewhere, trained elsewhere, even born elsewhere.
From: United States
says Danilo
Written by: Danilo, 19 Jan 2013 1:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic, DuckyDeals.com
Actually, this is what I was recommending a few months ago. We should provide more support and focus to our top athletes. Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism.
gold medals do wonders for tourism? really? how do you find your way off the bed in the morning? do you think anyone gives a crap if you win some medal in archery or the walk? do you think that the tourist industry in places like Kenya is booming because of their distance runners?
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2013 10:18 PM
From: Australia
Danilo,
Here's a novel idea to do wonders for Duminican kids - send them to school for a full day (instead of half a day, or not at all if it is raining or one of the many, many holidays.)
Written by: josean, 21 Jan 2013 9:07 AM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Danilo any more "bright" PURPLE ideas?
From: United States
says Roy
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2013 10:18 PM
From: Australia
Danilo,
Here's a novel idea to do wonders for Duminican kids - send them to school for a full day (instead of half a day, or not at all if it is raining or one of the many, many holidays.)
i have another novel idea. how about the teachers actually spending the school day in the classroom?
oh, i forgot this one. how about the students actually studying math during the year, instead of just paying the math teacher for a passing grade at the end of the year? now you see why 90% of the applicants for the Community College in SD failed the math segment of the test? 4% my foot!
Written by: walnut, 22 Jan 2013 9:44 AM
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
For the past two years, I have been working with a school outside of La Romana.
Orphans and children without a cedula attend.
On an average, the typical 10 year old comes to us with a pre-kindergarten education.
I see educated 18 year olds fumble with a calculator and who can't write sentences. And these are the lucky ones with a diploma.
Every community should be building new schools, be training teachers and getting parents involved.
Tragic thing.....at our school with 50 children, a father never, ever appears.
Time to empower the devoted mothers of the country to begin to solve local issues.
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Want to improve their quality of life?
How about getting a job and stop mooching off the productive members of society?
@Dan,
You stated: """Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism."""
I could understand the first part of it, in terms of the achievement being inspirational to our youth; however, as for the second part of your claims, ""tourism"", I am at a loss as to how our meager gold medals count promote it, at least not from such olympic powerhouses such as: US; Canada; Germany; China; Australia; Russia; Jamaica; etc.; etc. Please expand upon this claim-it definitely has educational potential!
MJEV.
@Dan,
I can buy your answer. However, then it really is a momentary opportunity immediately after the award, then, like the olympics themselves, it is forgotten.
I just hope that those googling DR don't focus too much on our rampant drugs problem and our judicial, government and military corruption, because they would be sure to stay the helll away from DR upon reading the numerous accounts attesting to those societal and governmental failures.
MJEV.
"Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism."
How does that help "Our Kids" Does it help them by filling their heads that if they play more sports instead of studying they will be rich and famous?
Written by: Danilo, 19 Jan 2013 1:42 PM
From: Dominican Republic, DuckyDeals.com
Actually, this is what I was recommending a few months ago. We should provide more support and focus to our top athletes. Those gold medals do wonders for our kids and for tourism.
gold medals do wonders for tourism? really? how do you find your way off the bed in the morning? do you think anyone gives a crap if you win some medal in archery or the walk? do you think that the tourist industry in places like Kenya is booming because of their distance runners?
Here's a novel idea to do wonders for Duminican kids - send them to school for a full day (instead of half a day, or not at all if it is raining or one of the many, many holidays.)
Danilo any more "bright" PURPLE ideas?
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2013 10:18 PM
From: Australia
Danilo,
Here's a novel idea to do wonders for Duminican kids - send them to school for a full day (instead of half a day, or not at all if it is raining or one of the many, many holidays.)
i have another novel idea. how about the teachers actually spending the school day in the classroom?
oh, i forgot this one. how about the students actually studying math during the year, instead of just paying the math teacher for a passing grade at the end of the year? now you see why 90% of the applicants for the Community College in SD failed the math segment of the test? 4% my foot!
Orphans and children without a cedula attend.
On an average, the typical 10 year old comes to us with a pre-kindergarten education.
I see educated 18 year olds fumble with a calculator and who can't write sentences. And these are the lucky ones with a diploma.
Every community should be building new schools, be training teachers and getting parents involved.
Tragic thing.....at our school with 50 children, a father never, ever appears.
Time to empower the devoted mothers of the country to begin to solve local issues.