Dear Editor,
Allow me to shed some light on the following article ‘Two Dept. Heads support Mae’s School’ in your paper on 22nd of May 2016. Let me make it absolutely clear that these two teachers were pressured by the administration into responding to the articles in the paper. The article demanded facts. Here are some facts about the two teachers who wrote the article. One has only been with the school for just over one year and the other for just over two years. And they were made supervisors because frankly there is no one else to put in those positions. All the staff except for about three teachers in the secondary are new teachers. The article spoke of the director, Miss Stacy French. She has been at the school for less than a year, was not a teacher at the school and used to live out of Guyana. Now tell me if the school was so good, why are teachers fleeing for their lives? I can go on and on about the school. But it is sufficient to say that current teachers writing letters to defend the school are only doing do so to protect their jobs. That is the kind of place that school is. Parents I am telling you when teachers are leaving so often your child will be impacted negatively. Former teacher name withheld on request)