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The atrocities perpetuated by QC Board of Governors

Feb 24, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Queen’s College is the premier secondary institution in this country, it has produced presidents, prime ministers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, businessmen only to mention a few.
I and all my siblings have passed through this great and noble institution. It was only a few days ago when I was at a social gathering overseas with many of my counterparts we were reflecting on our days at Queen’s College.
It was such a nostalgic moment that tears came to my eyes. When I thought it was only myself, I looked around the room only to noticed many of my brothers who attended the College drying their eyes.
Yes – Queen College is and will always be dear to us. Many of my greatest moments were created in those hollow walls. However, today I am disheartened to see what is happening at our beloved Queen’s College.
Quite recently there was the Barbados Relay Fair of which Queen’s College has been a part for the past five years, but disappointing to say the Board of Governors and the school’s administration refused to give them any financial aid, reducing Queen’s College students to beggars so as to make the Fair a reality.
Thankfully these athletes supported by their parents and kind donors were able to successfully participate in the Fair and medaled.
Queen’s College being the top secondary institution in Guyana were invited by their counterparts in Trinidad & Tobago to participate in a week of planned activities in keeping with the Caribbean Studies Syllabus has been refused permission to go by the Board of Governors.
As a parent I am pleased to be associated with this trip for I realised the benefit my child will receive as a result
Today this institution is faced with another terrible situation whereby the Board of Governors promised faithfully that if a required sum can be realised in two weeks the educational trip to Trinidad & Tobago which was planned by their Caribbean counterpart the St Joseph Convent, which is the leading secondary institution in Trinidad would be a reality.
Parents faithfully made contributions to realise the sum only to be told that the Board no longer approve of the educational trip. I could only imagine the embarrassment the teachers who would have worked so hard in collaboration with their Caribbean colleagues to make such a trip a reality are facing at this moment.
I, thus ask the following questions clearly and emphatically:
1. Why is the Board of Governors playing with our children’s future?
2. Can the Minister of Education tell us the nation if the administration has given power to the Board to destroy the education system?
3. Who decides what is taught in the curriculum. Is it the Board of Governors or the teachers?
4. To what extent is the school allowed to function without the interference of the Board?
5. Since when has the Board become curriculum instructor and evaluator, especially when none of them has any training in education?
6. Do they realise the impact visiting and interacting with other culture can have on the school’s curriculum?
It is therefore my sincere appeal that the Honorable Minister of Education review the actions and the authority given to the Board of Governors. Since in my opinion they are bent on destroying the education system the teachers are working so hard to maintain.
Concerned Parent

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