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APNU knocks Govt on school situation
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling on the government to address the serious concerns plaguing the education system, more particularly within the context of primary schools.
At a press briefing yesterday, Opposition leader Brig. David Granger, spoke to what his party terms the “first day disarray”, the continuous state of inadequacies that primary schools and their respective pupils face when schools open on the first day during September every year.
Opposition leader Brig. David Granger
Inadequacies include the unsanitary state of school compounds. Such are not conducive to learning, as well as providing the necessary framework for the promotion of growth. Granger said “these poor conditions, so evident at the annual ‘first day disarray’, have been a contributory factor to the escalation of the migration of trained teachers, the rising level of illiteracy, the increasing number of school dropouts and the swelling of the ranks of unemployed youths.”
APNU Granger has strongly denied and debunked the remarks made by head of the Presidential Secretariat Roger Luncheon which insinuates that the Opposition is responsible for the spate of school protests around the country. Granger alluded that it is nonsensical to think that APNU would be able to coordinate multiple protests all over the country.
According to APNU these inhibitive conditions that children face, have lead to protest by concerned citizens. “Protests are now as commonplace as any subject on the school curriculum. Parents and students find it necessary to object to the conditions which are a disincentive and a deterrent to their studies. Remedial action, when taken, seems to last only a few months until similar problems recur the following year,” Granger posited. Granger added, “Protests this year were a perpetuation of a pattern that has prevailed over the recent past.
There were protests at Hope West Primary School; at Enmore; Ann’s Grove Primary School; Bagotville Primary School; Golden Grove Primary School and St. Ignatius Primary School in the Rupununi Region, all in 2009. Sporadic protests have recurred every September.”
“The public perception is that the PPP/C administration is not serious about creating primary schools of excellence. A progressive policy would require a new attitude to ensuring that basic sanitary standards are met; to repairing decrepit buildings; to replenishing learning material; to supplying cleaning materials and to restoring a favourable and friendly learning environment, especially in rural and hinterland primary schools,” APNU declared.
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