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Mix up over Ministry placement at primary school
A mother is demanding that officials from the Ministry of Education investigate the circumstances surrounding the placement of her six-year-old daughter.
Samantha Austin
According to Samantha Austin her daughter who had attended the Starters Nursery was given placement to attend the St Margaret’s Primary by the ministry of Education on June 26, 2013. The woman told Kaieteur News yesterday that after being given the placement she went to the school to register her child.
According to Austin upon arriving at the school she was told by the school’s headmistress that her child’s name was not on the list.
Austin said that she went back to the Ministry of Education where she spoke to the placement officer. According to the woman she was told by the officer that the Ministry had to do a verification to ensure that the child was indeed living at the address which was given. The address was lot 136 Waterloo Street Georgetown.
Subsequent to the verification, the woman said she was told that the child did not live at the above address, thus disqualifying her from attending St Margaret’s Primary.
Austin said she went back to the ministry, along with her uncle who is the owner of the property in an effort to show that the child indeed lived at the address.
Feeling dissatisfied, Austin said she made an attempt to speak with the Minister of Education, however she was unable to. Austin said that it was another official, Assistant Chief Education Officer, Marcel Hudson, who spoke to her. The woman said that she was given a document to take back to the placement officer.
Austin said she did what she was told, however upon giving the document to the Placement Officer the woman tore it up in her presence. The woman said that instead of the Placement Officer listening to her plight the woman gave her a second placement, this time at the St Agnes Primary.
The woman told Kaieteur News that it would be very difficult to send her child to St Agnes Primary, since she has already purchased school clothes for St. Margaret’s. Austin said she is pleading with the ministry to look into the situation.
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