– Line Path Secondary alum charges Class of 2018

LAST Friday saw 65 students graduate from the Skeldon Line Path Secondary School during the school’s annual graduation exercise.

Reports are that the school did exceedingly well for itself this past academic year, testimony to which are the results of the recent sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

According to those results, Line Path Secondary not only had the distinction of producing the second top student in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) with 14 Grade Ones and two Grade Twos, but four other top students as well in the entire country.

Addressing the graduating class, parents and invites, Headmistress Ms. Evett Johnson highlighted that besides attaining 100% passes in nine subject areas, Line Path Secondary also recorded vast improvements in the areas of Maths and English A, and excellent performances in other subjects.

Giving a breakdown by subject of how the school performed this year, Ms Johnson said that in English A, the school recorded a 79.57% pass rate; 57.29% in Maths; 100% in Information Technology; 88.84% in Principles of Business; 82.62% in Principles of Accounts; and 100% in Caribbean History, Biology, Technical Drawing, Office Administration, and Physics respectively.

She, however, said that commendable though those results are, she and her staff will continue to ensure the school does even better with each passing year.

Delivering the keynote address, former student and Head of Neurosurgery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Dr.Amarnauth Dukhi said one cannot ask for a better school than Linepath Secondary when it comes to moulding young minds to become
prepared to take on the world.

Having said that, he had a challenge for the Class of 2018. “My challenge to each of you today,” Dr Dukhi said, “is to do all you can to reach your full potential; push yourselves, aiming for the stars.
“Success is not the absence of fear, but the capability of overcoming it; finding that inner strength to make a difference, and succeed in conquering unchartered grounds.”

He, however, said that he cannot promise that there wouldn’t be challenges.

“No matter where we go or what we do, there are challenges ahead of
Us,” Dr Dukhi said. “What I’m asking from each of you is that you meet those challenges head-on, with your head held high and your heart wide open.
“It’s not enough to simply try to get by in life; that doesn’t move the world forward. You must try to excel in everything you do; strive for excellence in every task, large or small.”

And by way of giving back to the school for making him the rounded person he is today, Dr Dukhi used the opportunity to announce the launch of the ‘Dr.Amarnauth Dukhi Foundation’ which aims at providing tertiary education to those students who cannot afford it.

Said Dr Dukhi of the scholarship:
“It will serve to identify and help prevent brilliant minds who would have excelled at the CSEC exams but cannot afford a tertiary education due to social
and financial difficulties.

“The foundation will seek to finance their
university education so that they can harness their true potential in spite of their economic status. It’s a way of giving back to the school where my dreams all started.”

The first recipient of that scholarship is 16-year-old Yugeeta Kumar, an aspiring bio-chemist.