‘The Edu. Minister don’t respond to my calls & texts’ – Hurt Parent
The woman called the Virgin Islands News Online and was weeping bitterly on November 5, 2014 after the story of the state of affairs at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) was published on this news site.
“Everything you guys have in that story is the fact and there is so much more. I have a child in that school and the reports daily are very worrying and scary to say the most. I have been making pleas to the various officers in the Education Department, nothing, calling and texting the minister, nothing, not to even acknowledge and say we are working on things there, nothing,” said the woman as she burst into tears.
“I am not in the position where I can afford to pay for my child to attend the private schools, I have to stick to the public school. I take my child there in person and collect her in the afternoon diligently every day and pray more than I do for myself that she gets through each day safely,” said the parent.
According to the obviously and understandably frustrated and hurt woman, reports from her child are that her teachers are willing to do their best but the level of distractions by unruly children pushes them to the edge and they are not properly equipped to deal with those children.
“Systems the Principal put in place are weak, the kids are smarter than her, and sometimes you have to talk less and do more and that’s a problem in there lots of talking and the children planning around them in silence,” said the parent.
The woman in her appeal has issued a call for concerned parents in her shoes to band together to devise a strategy to make a statement and deal with the issues in the ESHS. “There are many things we can do, and if the Minister and his team want us to take matters in our hands we will have to do it. We will not be indiscipline or unruly or break any law but we will have to deal with this nonsense.”
But in the mean time she admonished other parents to be steadfast in prayers and supplication for the good children in the school to stay safe and the disruptive ones. “I don’t want to call them ‘BAD’ but the disruptive ones we’ll pray while our hands are tied otherwise that they get help.”
Attempts by this news site to get a comment from the Minister or his Ministry proved futile up to post time.
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58 Responses to “‘The Edu. Minister don’t respond to my calls & texts’ – Hurt Parent”
This sounds like someone hyperventilating and over sensitive. Granted things may not good in the high school but its not like people are dying up in there on a daily basis to justify the level of fear she speaks of. If the school was not mentioned I would believe that her daughter was being sent to fight war with ISIS in Iraq, Syria or one of those places.
The responsibilty for the proper upbringing of children is the parents. When kids are not raised the proper way this is what happens and the authorities have to deal with it. Just make sure to raise up your daughter the right way.
Ministers of government on a whole responsible for setting policy, not day to day operations of ministry/agencies under their portfolio.
This is nothing but a smeer job against the minster.
People build their houses and run their raw sewerage and dirty water in the roads, and government have to fix it. They don't train their children but they expect the government to train them. For crying out loud BVI Landers, learn to take care of your responsibilities and stop blaming THE GOVERNMENT!!!! You people are a set of sorry loosers.
In my years as a student of the same high school I have never heard classrooms runs by students where the students can make noise, walk around the classroom, or do as they please and the teacher is right there and doing nothing. The teacher will try to teach to who willing to learn but it is still difficult. I do not know why these students are not put out the class and their parents contacted if because the teacher do not want to seem incompetent.
Parents I urge you to make contact with the school and see how the learning environment is and take action by being present together in the classroom and bring back order.
He is one of the few.
You are ridiculous.