Again, so very accurate - even the details. We don't often hear people outside of the system supporting teachers but to know that there are people out there that actually knows the truth and are willing to talk about what teachers experience is quite vindicating.
I speak as a teacher in our "I don't need an education" mentality high schools. Our students have nothing to aspire to where they need an education. Most students are also spewing out the "hand-me-out" mentality where they think like this: 1) I know someone who knows someone who knows another who knows the MP really well so I don't have to worry about qualifying for a job. 2) the latest - I am from a PLP family so my job awaits whenever I choose to show up over the next five years 3) My grand-aunt or my uncle is a stalworth counsellor so I have nothing to stress about 4) My auntie works at Atlantis so I straight ... and the reasons for not having to learn goes on. Oh I forgot the best one "Teach I could make in one night what you make for the month so why you stressing me" and the list goes on and on.
AND as long as the parents have no interest in their child's education (that's 80% of them) there is nothing the teachers or schools or government can do to convince them otherwise. And parents are not interested because they are waiting on the MP or the government to hand out something to them. Case in point - I had a class the other day where 25% of the students showed up with nothing to write with, yet, they were adorned with Clarke shoes, Kipling back packs, Tommy belts and the stiffest Docker shirts and pants you'll ever lay eyes on - yes, and they were all boys.
What I take exception to is your "back[ed] by the government" phrase. the other part of your statements seems well intended - I agree - but let's keep the government out of this, please. That's why we have the rate of poverty that we currently experience in this country - and all perpetrated by the "hand-me-out" mentality instilled by the PLP.
dynamically well put!!! i am a college graduate but may I be the first to say that your input can be taken as expert advice. I am so familiar with your statement (being from the island myself). I come from a constituency that has never been PLP (ever) and yet in all those Pindling years and during the five years with PGC as prime minister, the PLP generals ALWAYS got flushed with government favours - fishing boats, bonded vehicles, bank loans, etc. and at the first need for maintenance on any of the equipment everything goes belly up. All because no hard work (blood, sweat and tears) went in to acquiring the equipment. During the time of PLP government, loans were defaulted like crazy because the generals felt they were above the law and political interference prevented the normal process.
How much do you want government to do. We are such a "hand-me-out" mentality nation. Should they give us an allowance to go to the wash house too? Just asking...
notsogullible says...
Again, so very accurate - even the details. We don't often hear people outside of the system supporting teachers but to know that there are people out there that actually knows the truth and are willing to talk about what teachers experience is quite vindicating.
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TRUE!!!!
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notsogullible says...
well said and completely accurate!!!!!
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TAL I think you are lacking sleep. Is Hubert really haunting you that much?
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I speak as a teacher in our "I don't need an education" mentality high schools. Our students have nothing to aspire to where they need an education. Most students are also spewing out the "hand-me-out" mentality where they think like this: 1) I know someone who knows someone who knows another who knows the MP really well so I don't have to worry about qualifying for a job. 2) the latest - I am from a PLP family so my job awaits whenever I choose to show up over the next five years 3) My grand-aunt or my uncle is a stalworth counsellor so I have nothing to stress about 4) My auntie works at Atlantis so I straight ... and the reasons for not having to learn goes on. Oh I forgot the best one "Teach I could make in one night what you make for the month so why you stressing me" and the list goes on and on.
AND as long as the parents have no interest in their child's education (that's 80% of them) there is nothing the teachers or schools or government can do to convince them otherwise. And parents are not interested because they are waiting on the MP or the government to hand out something to them. Case in point - I had a class the other day where 25% of the students showed up with nothing to write with, yet, they were adorned with Clarke shoes, Kipling back packs, Tommy belts and the stiffest Docker shirts and pants you'll ever lay eyes on - yes, and they were all boys.
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notsogullible says...
What I take exception to is your "back[ed] by the government" phrase. the other part of your statements seems well intended - I agree - but let's keep the government out of this, please. That's why we have the rate of poverty that we currently experience in this country - and all perpetrated by the "hand-me-out" mentality instilled by the PLP.
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notsogullible says...
dynamically well put!!! i am a college graduate but may I be the first to say that your input can be taken as expert advice. I am so familiar with your statement (being from the island myself). I come from a constituency that has never been PLP (ever) and yet in all those Pindling years and during the five years with PGC as prime minister, the PLP generals ALWAYS got flushed with government favours - fishing boats, bonded vehicles, bank loans, etc. and at the first need for maintenance on any of the equipment everything goes belly up. All because no hard work (blood, sweat and tears) went in to acquiring the equipment. During the time of PLP government, loans were defaulted like crazy because the generals felt they were above the law and political interference prevented the normal process.
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notsogullible says...
How much do you want government to do. We are such a "hand-me-out" mentality nation. Should they give us an allowance to go to the wash house too? Just asking...
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notsogullible says...
so well said!! ... reading my mind
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