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A travesty and an example of discrimination

Dec 02, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
I read in the Sunday, November 20, Kaieteur News with considerable amount of anger what occurred to the son of our Commissioner-General at the recently concluded National Championship, Ministry of Education annually sponsored event.
The content of his letter raises serious questions as to the role of the Minister in ensuring that the Government Policy on racial discrimination is not being flaunted which seem to be rampant in the camp of the Guyana Teachers Union. It is a total shame and disgrace that this 14-year-old boy should be made to suffer such glaring acts of discrimination at the hands of a bunch of misfits.
If this is the level of depravity that our teaching profession in the public sector has fallen to then it makes me wonder what moronic minds are being shaped as our future leaders of this country.
I ask the question of the so called organizers of these events, ‘What does a child knows of a birth certificate as a pre-qualification for him or her to qualify for a sports event?’
What possible explanation can you give a child of just 15 years old that because of not being in possession of a birth certificate on time the child was disqualified from participating in an event that he or she would have qualified for, based on merits.
This is the height of stupidity to disqualify a child from a sporting event on the basis of not producing a birth certificate in time when other forms of verification of the child’ s age could have been used.  For those responsible to gloat in the satisfaction that their agenda has been achieved at the very minimum, should be made to suffer public humiliation.
Not only should they be publicly disgraced but also never allowed to be seen in the halls of that noble profession of educators of shaping the minds of future men and women of our country.
If what I read is true then I hope that the Minister does take serious note of the manner in which his instructions were flaunted and make a public example of those responsible.
I look forward in keen anticipation to hear what happens next.
LYLA KISSOON A.A

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