Latest update February 14th, 2025 8:22 AM
Queen’s College teachers stage sit in
Two of the disgruntled Queen’s College teachers spoke to the media yesterday
Most of the Queen’s College student population reported for classes yesterday but none was conducted because teachers at the institution staged a sit in.
The action came one day after the institution held a convocation ceremony to bid farewell to its deputy head teacher, Ms Gem Rohlehr. But at the ceremony it was announced that the deputy was re-employed as a temporary deputy head teacher.
There are more than 40 teachers on staff at QC. Some did not report for duty yesterday and others did not teach at all because they see this announcement as illegal and unfair.
Lyndon Hector, Head of the Department of Agriculture at the school, said, “We have stopped teaching and will not be doing so until we are given ample explanation of why this post was created and why the deputy was taken back on the job even after she had reached retirement age.”
He said that the reemployment to the post has blocked the chance of promotion for another teacher who is qualified and capable of doing the job.
Senior Master Hector said, too, that teachers have also experienced years of problems from the now reinstated deputy and will no longer tolerate them.
He is asking that Minister of Education Shaik Baksh rescind the decision in the best interest of the institution.
According to Hector who is also the staff representative on the board of governors of the school, the teachers will not be teaching until the Education Minister rescinds the decision.
One female teacher, Nadia Hollingsworth, said, “The Deputy has taught here for more than twenty years and has had four years as deputy head teacher so we have no problem if she returns to teach her core subject.
“But it is unfair for her to be reinstated in a new position when she has already reached the age to retire and has done so. We’re concerned too that our teachers were not consulted on the reinstatement.”
A Guyana Teachers’ Union official met with head teacher, Friedel Isaacs, yesterday and followed up with a meeting of the teachers.
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