Headless schools

DearEditor, a group of consultants to

Thanks to Christopher thoroughly examine the Ram for his accounting incidence of high-level analysis of vacancies in our vacancies in our system various levels of schools, as Incidentally there is a advertised by the Teaching contention that many are Service Commission – currently entertaining acting interestingly an annual appointees, who apparently exercise only, regardless of now have to apply like how perpetual these outsiders, since apparently absenceshavebeen. there is no provision for the constipated 19 Grade Indeed, salary scales Job Structure established in have become irrelevant t h e C o l o n i a l e r a , discouragingly constricted compounded as it is by the as they are, with the highest most disillusionary grade crowded with a Fixed compensation system in the Salary e.g. Principal CPCE –Caribbean, of which this again ever since the Colonial government pretends to be era. leader Just why is this

Equally persistent is the evaluatingacting,andindeed Commission’s determined a n y s u b s t a n t i v e refusal to renew and adjust performances.

It is most difficult to c o m p e n s a t i o n a r y understand why the one constipation being so group of professionals, stubbornly maintained. But committed to growing all then it not as if the Guyana others (including teachers) Teachers’ Union is not a are the least recognised and committed contributor to so under-evaluated for their their members’ chagrin products who are praised for Exactly who is teaching earning awards annually for whom not to learn to do theirperformance. better?

The Teaching Service Sincerely, Commission needs to invite E. B. John