WEHNER REPORTS: Parents and Students Protest Glanvilles Secondary Closure Outside Education Ministry (VIDEO)

1. I’m not sure i understand the hoorah. We ALWAYS seem to be making mountains out of mole hills. These things happen everyday ALL.over the world. While I understand the need for dialogue, I don’t see anything wrong with this move. Just my opinion.

2. Oh my… I feel that young lady’s pain. I know for a fact that she is not the only student who was posted to that school and is now doing better both academically and socially. No resource is too much for the success of even one child. Mr. Minister is this how you run your ministry. Absolutely no consultation with any stakeholders!!

3. When schools close, it’s the children who suffer most.

4. This isn’t just noise…parents know what’s best for their children.

5. look nonsense wi

6. Because you are not thinking about how it affect people actually going there. Look the lady say she done buy uniform and so just to Transfer have to spend more money on a different uniform pay for registration and so on. Parent don’t have alot of money and Glanvilles is a school that help out by any means just to insure the students come to school and excel other schools are big there not gonna pay close attention to students u as a person should have think about all this before just agreeing blindly.

7. Let’s just hope that loser Wehner NEVER becomes our Minister of Education of our Minister of Finance or advisor to either!! The population of both schools has shown a steady decline over the years as happened with the Newfield Primary and the Bethesda Schools respectively. It made no sense then to have a teacher in one school teaching nine students and a teacher in a neighboring school teaching seven; it makes no sense now!! George are you never chastised by yout betters in your party or are they all just as dumb????

8. @FC put yourself and child or children in that situation if you have any. The ministry probably never me with the parents and village to propose any changes. So you abruptly find out hey now in 3 months your child is going into a different school environment. Especially a learning environment that does not have the best results for students and they always have disruption in the classrooms. It’s easy not to understand because you and your child are not the ones dealing with the abrupt changes. This should have been dealt with the families in a more appropriate manner.

9. Once Pares secondary school was a power house school from the east. The past students of Pares wore their uniforms with pride. That school did well academically and in sports. On the national school debate they were a force to reckon with.
   So what went wrong. Academically the ministry of education has failed this school in a big way. The property- the school plant has been allowed to run down to a rubbish dump. The learning environment is not conducive to learning. The security it terms fencing was left in a state of disrepair for decades. I don’t know for now but a few years ago they were short on furniture to the point that students were standing.
   They the sports field that afforded the school to provide so much great sports men and women is now an animal grazing field. Both political parties did nothing to uplift this school for the past two decades.
   Then with the advent of universal secondary education, Ganville Secondary was opened. They graded the students grades 1 to 4. Ganville Secondary was for the students of the lower grades. I can remember it started with many students that could not read.
   Fast forward to today, it has climbed out of the darkness and is now a decent school. The culture developed has been remarkably. The teachers, students, parents and community bonded together and have done a remarkable job in molding this school into a good institution.
   I do understand the reason for the decision. So my suggestion is as follows. The government/ ministry needs to sit with the parents, teachers and communities- have town hall meetings. With the nice development plan, architecture designs included.
   They need to do extensive construction to the Pares school plant. Update all the facilities- the science labs , the computer labs , the teachers staff room, the class rooms. Introduce e-boards. Then make the security a priority, improve fencing , cameras, security alarms etc. Finally develop a proper sporting facility. A nice mini stadium with a soccer and cricket field, basketball, tennis and volleyball facilities, proper Gymnasium-Pares sports was iconic!
   Make this into a nice education facility. It is the only secondary school in this area, so put everything into it, then merge!!!!

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