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The weaknesses in the Education system

Jun 15, 2012 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
The Ministry of Education will continue to do Region Six great injustice if this visionless Education Department is left to manage. It is no secret that a crisis has developed in Region Six. This rising incompetence displayed by those entrusted by the Ministry of Education to manage the delivery of Education is sickening and leads to decreased output and increased illiteracy.
Sometimes you have to let these education officers know when they are doing things contrary and for this they target you.
My conclusion is drawn from the following:
1. This is the only region with medically unfit educators; where teachers absent too often from the schools. I am not talking about release to attend UG or CPCE but the abuse of sick leaves. The Medical Board should be put to task because something just does not seem right. Long ago this was never so.
2. At the GTU Branch meeting I heard from a head teacher that a graduate senior teacher of Corriverton Primary applied for Whitley Council Leave in October last year to proceed on leave in January. To this date she has not got the approval and the Whitley Council allowance. The teacher should just sue the Department of Education.
3. I recall when Leon Suseran, a journalist attached to Kaieteur News, reported on the shortage of furniture at a school in New Amsterdam at the beginning of the school year (2011-2012) he got the fire from Mrs. Bhajan, the Regional Education Officer.
4. The unfortunate situation with Ms. Hackim at Skeldon Primary School is another sordid story which exposed the inadequacy of the Department of Education. I am of the view that if the Ministry of Education had intervened there would have been a different turn to this ugly scenario.
5. Look how the Department of Education slumbered with the incident with the ‘cussing teacher’ at Sheet Anchor Primary School. The teacher ‘cuss down’ the Grade Five pupils, parents complained to the Ministry of Education and got no satisfaction.
6. Consider the cowboy school, Skeldon High Annexe, by the # 79 market, which is managed by a retiree, and has no connection with the real Skeldon High School. They don’t even wear the same uniform and that school since run by that retiree, hasn’t participated in Athletics Sports for about four years now.
7. Incompetence is the order of the day in Region Six. Many instances, persons who can’t function are placed in senior positions and they literally mess up children’s lives.
8. Another burning issue is the Preliminary Promotion List that is circulating all over the country. This promotion business is flawed. Every year some teachers get promotion in Region Six. Some teachers have ‘connections’ with high ranking TSC officials. The appointment committee is in possession of the same criteria that guided teachers to apply for senior appointments. I certainly did not misinterpret criteria A and B for promotion as head of Grade B Primary Schools.
What I find with this region is that these education officers slumber a lot. They focus more on moving from school to school to belittle teachers than doing their work properly. Some even getting fat on the job.
Honourable Minister of Education please do not allow your efforts to go wasted.
Amit Jaisingh

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