Teachers on the move

THE EDITOR, Madam:

The flippant response of the Government towards the migration crisis of teachers is just a way of saying they are not proactive but reactive. All our government ever seeks to do is treat with the symptoms and not try curing the disease.

I am a teacher and I have never been asked whether I have in inclination to migrate, if yes, why? And if no, why? The ministry is too out of touch and callous towards teachers.

Our teachers are in dire need of a structured system that has policies that are proactive and not reactive. They need job security, proper human resource management, proper compensation and better working conditions.

Teachers are working 10-15 years or more before they are able to live a comfortable life at minimum. They are exposed to so many elements of society and nothing is firmly in place to ensure their economic stability.

Why should we then listen to an education minister who migrated to the US, presumably for a better life, or a prime minister who homeschooled his children rather than improving the system? The hypocrisy is too evident.

Neil H. Buchanan purports “An Educated Population Is Essential to a Nation’s Prosperity”. Our government needs to invest more time and money in education, and this might be news to the Jamaica Labour Party, but without education you cannot achieve true prosperity.

My suggestion to the PM and minister of education is to start rolling out real solutions to this crisis and stop offering Band-Aids.

THE ANONYMOUS WRITER