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Minister of Education expresses concerns over PG protest

By on October 22, 2013

The Honorable the Minister of Education Mr. Patrick Faber is expressing concern about the staging of a protest in Punta Gorda town on Monday by parents of children attending the Julian Cho Technical High School in Toledo.

The protest was in support of a teacher who has been having difficulties in renewing his passport and therefore cannot be granted a work permit or a teaching license. 

Minister Faber says he is hoping that things return to normal post-haste and he is of the opinion that picketing the Education Centre was not the right way to go. 

According to Minister Faber, there is a managing authority for the Julian Cho Technical High School in place, and what the concerned parents should have done was request a meeting with the High School board to find out what that entity was doing to put a replacement teacher in place.

Mr. Faber says that he stands by the position that he as Minister does not micro-manage and will not bend the rules to accommodate anyone who is not doing things according to established protocols and rules. 

Minister Faber, while maintaining that the protest took place at the wrong place, believes that there may have been some political mischief at work in Monday’s protest and called out one particular person for trying to turn a situation into what it is not.

In the final analysis, the Minister of Education says that he will stick with what is right, despite the behavior of people who throw tantrums when they don’t get their own way.

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