Issue:Alphansus Davis' appointment Irascible teachers in the wrong
Published:Saturday | April 30, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
I highly commend Mr Alphansus Davis for his well-worded, level-headed response to those irascible people exhibiting tantrum because the minister of education will not let them have their way. He is a fitting example of the type of teacher needed to lift standards and ethics among our students. Those appointed functionaries who spend time challenging the elected policymakers might take example and try to be better exemplars for their charges.
Hopefully, the minister will be as resolute in his stance on this matter. The nation needs to be assured that the elected Government fully understands what it is doing; that ministers are acting with good judgement and appropriate authority to ensure that decisions are carried out by employees of the state.
selfish reasoning
It is painfully obvious that since 2007, Jamaica has been sliding towards a state of anarchy in which special-interest groups, accountable to no one but their membership, are taking turns at telling the people's elected Government how, when and where it should act. This is no way to run a country.
Quite rightly, the teachers'organisation does not tolerate government intrusion in its affairs. Equally, it should not be demanding that ministerial decisions be subject to the approval of its members. To defy Government every step of the way, and to disrupt the people's education system for purely selfish reasons, is anarchic; and this behaviour is the example that the teachers' organisation is setting for parents who may dislike the way schoolteachers treat their children. They should be reminded that those who sow to the wind are likely to reap the whirlwind.
I am, etc.,
KEN JONES