I have always asserted that I’m aware of NACTA

Sep 30, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Is Freddie Kissoon finally losing it? On August 30 Freddie wrote, “Mr. Boodram says because Freddie Kissoon says Bisram is not a teacher, so he, Bisram is not a teacher.” Boodram has never said such a thing. Actually I have always made it absolutely clear that I know that Bisram is a teacher, while Freddie has continually declared this is not so based on the findings of a manufactured source. Now, of course, the proof has been revealed but Freddie has not yet admitted that he was wrong.
Then on September 4, Freddie wrote, “He (Boodram) wrote last week that because Freddie says Bisram does not do polls, it means Bisram does not do polls.”
Why would I write that Bisram does not do polls because Freddie says so when I have actually published many of those polls in The Caribbean Voice?
Added Freddie (August 30), “Mr. Boodram, Mr. Bisram and Ravi Dev know that there is no such thing as NACTA.” On the contrary I have always asserted that I’m aware of NACTA and am familiar with many of its members. Yet Freddie is confident that Boodram knows that NACTA does not exist.
Then on September 25 Freddie wrote, “I am replying to a letter by Mr. Annan Boodram of New York, denying that he wrote that Mr. Vishnu Bisram could be a teacher yet travel extensively”. In the first instance my letter of September 19 had nothing to do with Bisram’s travels.
Rather it simply refuted a consistent Kissoon fabrication relating to summer school. What I actually wrote was: “for the umpteenth time let me emphasise that I never wrote a letter in which I asserted that Bisram makes up for the time he spends polling around the world by teaching in the summer recess…The truth is that, in responding to a comment of Kissoon that school is not held in summer, I pointed out that there is summer school in New York at which students are provided an opportunity to make up work at summer school in order to qualify for promotion. Summer school is usually held for all of July and the first week in August.”
Secondly I have always emphatically stated that though he is a teacher Bisram can still travel a lot. So why would I now deny that?
Mr. Editor, the fact that Bisram travels as often as he does bugs the hell out of Freddie. But Bisram can afford his travels and polling because on the one hand he makes close to six figures as a teacher with more than 20 years of teaching experience, while, on the other, as Ravi Dev pointed out some time ago, Bisram made a killing in the real estate market in the seventies and eighties. And yes Bisram can travel a lot without his students missing out because he does not have to take leave from regular working days.
He generally departs on a Friday evening/night and returns on a Sunday evening/night (I myself, have done so on occasions.). Bisram also travels during the many school holidays such as Christmas/New Year’s break, mid-winter break, spring break, summer break, Memorial Day weekend and Thanksgiving Weekend.
Annan Boodram

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