Should Jamaican Creole be a language of the classroom?
One side
Creole as mother-tongue and equal-rights instruction
The other
English-first for examinations and mobility
What was argued
A long-running public-record debate on the place of Patois in Jamaican education, stated neutrally: advocates argue that teaching in and about Jamaican Creole affirms most children's mother tongue and improves literacy and rights; others argue that classroom priority should stay with English as the language of examinations and economic mobility. Neutral framing; no verdict.
The records this concerns
Sources
Jamaican Language Unit, UWI; Jamaica Gleaner archive; Caribbean linguistics scholarship