Update: Mellissa Amey out! Wade Tobin in!
Even though many senior officials in the Ministry and Department of Education denied this at the time, official word came that this news site’s report was factual as usual!
Minister for Education and Culture Myron V. Walwyn made the announcement yesterday, August 27, 2012 during a meeting with the Territory’s Public School teachers dubbed as Professional Day for Educators, held at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium.
"Today I would like to formally announce that Mr. Wade Tobin will now be taking over the leadership of our largest secondary school, the Elmore Stoutt High School. As you all know, Ms. Melissa Amey, Principal of the school is currently on study leave," Hon. Myron V.Walwyn, Minister for Education and Culture stated.
The Minister said he believes that Mr. Tobin will make a positive contribution to the education system in his new role.
In our original report in June 2012, this news site’s well placed sources within the ruling National Democratic Party Government and team of reporters, informed us that Principal of ESHS Ms. Melissa Amey, is expected to return to University to finalise her Master’s Degree. It is unclear for how long but the area of studies is reported to be Human Resources. While Principal Amey is on study leave, former ESHS teacher and current Principal of one of the Virgin Islands’ private schools, Wade W. Tobin, is expected to act as Principal.
Melissa Amey Profile
According to the H. L. Stoutt Community College, in their alumni profile, Amey grew up in New York where she completed elementary school, as well as her early years of high school. Her later years of high school were completed at Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. She holds an Associate’s Degree in Elementary Education, as well as a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology from Lander University, South Carolina. Ms. Amey is currently pursuing a double Master’s in Human Resources Management and Human Resources Development at Webster University, also in South Carolina.
Since 1989, Ms. Amey has been teaching for over 17 years in the Virgin Islands, a period interrupted only by her attendance at Lander University. She has served variously at Leonora Delville, Althea Scatliffe, and Enis Adams Primary Schools, as well as the Elmore Stoutt High School.
She has been Acting Principal at Elmore Stoutt High School since September 2009 and has been confirmed to the post in 2011. Ms. Amey, who also had a stint at Job Developer, GLEAMNS Human Resources, a South Carolina company, (2002-2004) is the daughter of Mrs. Antoinette Skelton, the Executive Director of the BVI Social Security Board.
Wade W. Tobin Profile
Mr. Tobin, the current Principal of the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) elementary and secondary schools, has been teaching for over 23 years. He spent 19 years in the public service as a teacher and taught at several public schools on Tortola before moving on to his current employment.
After graduating from the then BVI High School now Elmore Stoutt High School in 1990, Tobin landed his first job as a Class Three Teacher at the Enis Adams Primary where he spent a year from 1990 to 1991, before taking up a Class Four Teacher position at the Althea Scatliffe Primary, from 1991 to 1993.
He then moved on to the Ivan Dawson Primary and stayed there from 1993 to 1997 before his final employment in the public service at the Elmore Stoutt High School from 2001 to 2007 as Year Head/Teacher of History and Social Studies.
Mr. Tobin earned an Associate’s Degree in Teaching from the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in 1996, and went on to pursue higher teaching education at the University of the Virgin Islands where he obtained his Bachelor’s in Social Sciences/Secondary Teachers Preparation in 2001 and finally in 2004 a Master’s in Education Administration from the same institution.
Wade W. Tobin is the brother of Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Works, Julian Willock.
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52 Responses to “Update: Mellissa Amey out! Wade Tobin in!”
She Didn't Get Her Job Because Ms.Sk...on Is Her Mother. She Got The Job From Hard Work. Why Can You People Never Be Happy Fro Someone Without Negativity?
Miss F***h MP it is only because of who her mother is why she got the position, that and that alone. She cant lead a fly much less ESHS. She knows how to capture the kids but it takes a whole lot more than that to run ESHS.