The school system needs more Thomases

Nov 25, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Cleveland Thomas has refused to go along with a directive from the Ministry of Education. This very act of defiance says so much about the dynamic nature of society and the need for honesty, tolerance for positive criticism, open mindedness and a willingness to believe that someone else other than the Government is capable of having answers to Guyana’s challenges.
If Neesa Gopaul were attending Wismar Christianburg Multilateral School she may well have been alive today. This no nonsense individual has caused teachers of his school to be dismissed for having inappropriate relationships with students. He has in a matter of a few years taken an underachiever and transformed it to one of the best Secondary Schools in Linden.
Mr. Thomas’s defiance is an opportunity for this nation to reflect upon what is certainly a misguided directive and call it out for it stupidity.
We live in a world where we shun what is good for us and cling slavishly to things that are detrimental to us. No head teacher is summoned to provide answers to questions about their children gathered at term’s end to consume alcohol. No vendors are hauled before the courts for selling them the alcohol. Merely to summon Mr. Thomas in this context and under the current circumstances is an indecent act. This is a brave man, maybe anointed.
Jonathan Adams

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