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Inconsiderate behaviour and unprofessionalism at CPCE
Dear Editor,
With anger and hurt I compose this letter, after being mistreated once again by the lecturers at the Cyril Potter College of Education.
After completing your two years of training at the institution, if you do not complete all of the courses or happen to have to re-sit that course, you are expected to complete these courses at the In-Service Centre in your region, or at the Georgetown In-Service Centre at Turkeyen – whatever your preference may be while teaching at a school and having your teaching status being a Temporary Qualified Mistress/Master (TQM).
With no regrets, whatsoever, I feel obligated to expose the lecturers at the Turkeyen Branch for their inconsiderate and reckless behaviour. I would have submitted my letter seeking permission to re-sit a course for the present semester beforehand – on Wednesday, January 3, 2018, to be exact, to the Student Development Centre. I was told to return on Friday, January 5, to retrieve that letter. I did such, only to be told that the letter was not completed yet. The next week, on Wednesday, January 10, I returned once again to the Centre, to be told the same thing yet again. I decided to wait for two weeks for the letter to be processed.
A colleague of mine offered to collect my letter, since she was going to submit hers at the same time. She was told that the closing date for submission of letters had passed, and her justification was “pitiful” and “childish”. My colleague has not received her monthly salary since she started working in September 2017.
One of the lecturers, who is known for discouraging students of the college and also encouraging them to leave the institution after they would’ve been sick or took a few days after going into labour, simply stated that financial difficulties is “no excuse” and that she “should’ve made it her responsibility” to submit the letter before.
My colleague would’ve then proceeded to collect my letter from the lecturer that is responsible for writing the letters granting permission to re-sit the course, only to be told that no letter was submitted, and that I would not be able to write the course, seeing that the submission date had passed.
It is unfair to know that I have to wait an entire year to re-sit that course because the lecturers at the Cyril Potter College of Education would have misplaced my letter, and are simply inconsiderate about the fact that I would’ve submitted my letter beforehand.
There are many other issues I wish to address, but for the time being, this one is my biggest concern, and I refuse to let this finish here.
Sincerely,
A very vexed TQM
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