Where are well trained teachers, Gopeesingh?

So every Monday morning, or Tuesday if the Monday was a holiday, an article comes up full of theories explaining why our children will continue to be potential criminals.

It is usually because some advice given some time ago was not followed.

Never mind that the goodly advice was not followed by the previous minister of education, Dr Tim Gopeesingh.

He is not to be blamed for any of what is happening in our schools today.

In fact, the writer of the articles always finds him and widely quotes his diatribe. He extols his own greatness and boasts about all the measures he had put in place to stem the violence and indiscipline.

No discerning reporter asks him how come then we still have so much of it? Didn’t all these wonderful measures work? Have all those well trained teachers, whose professional approach enabled them to spot difficult students, departed the school system with Gopeesingh? As far as I understand, the current minister did not instruct them to cease and desist from such an important task.

Of course, the whole world knows, and that includes TT , that our resources were not as well handled as they should have been in the past. Therefore we are now “skating” and have to make bread out of stone. Gopeesingh should be ashamed to even utter another word about education.

PAULINE ISIDORE via email