First Vice President of the Parent-Teacher Association, Alan Marshall (left) and Second Vice-President Sharron Lucas-Blackman as they made their way into the office at the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation.
By:
Cara L. Foster
Parents of the students of Combermere School are not pleased with the way issues relating to that institution are currently being handled.
The parents gathered yesterday morning in Queen’s Park for a brief meeting, before heading over to the Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation to drop off a
letter, which outlines all their concerns regarding the problems which have forced the secondary school to be closed for almost five weeks.
First Vice-President of the Parent-Teacher Association, Alan Marshall, highlighted that this issue was one that reared its head last year – causing the school to close twice in one term – and said they were assured during the summer that the problem had been fixed. “[However], this school term we are back and we have the same problem,” he lamented.
He also revealed that the parents are not very happy with the lack of communication between the teachers and parents of the school.
What angers the parents is the fact that a PTA meeting was called the second week and “not one teacher came forth and said that there were any problems at the school”, Marshall charged.
“We have heard nothing from them in September, nothing in October and we understand that when we had to have our meeting at HC, there were some present, but not necessarily in an official capacity,” he explained.
He added that the teachers never came to the PTA meetings and expressed the problems that they were having and that the children may be experiencing as a result.
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