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Discrimination by Region 4 Education Committee

Jul 12, 2013 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
I write to record my deep disappointment with the discrimination meted out to my son, Lukas Walcott, by the Head of the Education Committee of Region Four, Ms. Genevieve Allen.
Lukas who attended Success Elementary School earned 535 marks at the 2013 National Grade Six Assessment examination and has been awarded a place at Queen’s College. According to the Ministry of Education, this score makes Lukas the fifth highest performer in Region Four.
However, the Region Four  Education Committee in its wisdom saw it fit to ignore this performance on the spurious grounds that Success Elementary school located at Eccles on the East Bank of Demerara, is not Government-owned.
My question is this: aren’t the pupils, teachers, parents, support staff Guyanese?
Private schools in Guyana have to get permission from the Ministry of Education in order to operate; so what is the problem?
Leon Walcott
Father

 

 

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