Teacher’s private lessons must stop

THE EDITOR: I am a parent and what I am concerned about is the blatant way in which teachers are recruiting students from the schools to which they are attached, to their private lessons. This country is spending money on the Education system via increase in teachers’ salaries which will put them into a higher income bracket so how can they morally “say” they are committed to our children when they manage somehow to complete the subject syllabus during private lessons and not in regular hours of class. The difference is obvious.

This brings me to the position that principals take on this — surely they are aware of the teachers who engage in the siphoning of students for private lessons. And what of the Ministry of Education? Do they sit idly by watching from their ivory tower at all of this? These teachers operate from their homes and sharpen up their PRO images which they seldom do for regular school and proclaim to the same parents at school meetings how much of a failure their children are but suddenly that son/daughter is no longer such but willing and passable material! It is unconscionable! A stand has to be taken by the Authorities so that such a problem can be addressed. Parents must have a voice. Such a practice is certainly not setting high standards, or reinforcing values and ethics.

LEON ROSE
Tunapuna