Students being made to sit in lobby @ Anegada school
It’s believed to be a strange, uncomfortable and unique situation in the entire territory and one which further brings to light the scant regard given to the long list of issues affecting residents, even the student population on the sister island.
Several factors were observed by this news site during the long hours spent at the school on Monday May 4, 2015. It could not have gone un-noticed how distracted the lone student in the Science “class” was at the time because of the traffic and surrounding noise emanating especially from the classroom sessions in progress at the time.
The teacher at the time struggled to use her laptop as she had to be squinting and taking her head close up to the screen several times as she related her lesson to the senior grade child. The other tools were a very small white board, white board marker and a duster which she appeared to have borrowed from another classroom.
The teacher’s words, which obviously were not meant directly for the hearing of others around at the time but because of the ‘open air’ classroom space, were clear as she was overheard in a one-on-one discourse with a parent, “Since I came to this school, this is my class room and this is all I have, yes this is it.”
The parent at the time appeared to have been checking in with the teacher on the progress of her child who attends the class but was absent that day as parents had kept their children at home in protest of the situations plaguing the school.
Parents & teachers barred from speaking to media
All the teachers and students present that day were barred from speaking with reporters present on that occasion and this was told to them in the clear hearing of reporters by the Principal Mr John Williamson.
“You will notice there are two reporters here also and you are not to speak to them or answer any questions they ask you,” Williamson warned the students at the morning assembly and a similar statement to the teachers in a short briefing that followed.
He too refrained from speaking with the media and said, “You can report me as being hostile if you want.”
Senior officials who were conducting investigations of issues at the school also declined to speak with the media. They were Mr Arthur Selwood and Mr Allen Hodge of the Ministry of Education.
Several efforts throughout the week to garner an explanation from Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education Dr Marcia Potter and other officials in the Education Department proved futile.
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15 Responses to “Students being made to sit in lobby @ Anegada school”
Well as an @$$, you must be familiar with b@rns.
A fund should be set up and make it mandatory that these offshore companies registering in the BVI must pay into the fund which will be used for technological and structural improvements of our schools.
When I was growing up, we often sat outside under the trees to have class at times. What about that picture looks 3rd world? VIP are so desperate they don't know where to turn.
No local would work under those conditions