While those Grace Primary students have something to look forward to for next school year, some teachers can’t even look that far ahead, because at the beginning of this school year, they will be out of a job. As we told you in early February, Minister of Education Patrick Faber announced that those teachers without a full license will be dismissed and replaced. Well, since that announcement many teachers have been scrambling to get their full license, but today Faber reiterated that time is up for those teachers who did not budge to get fully licensed and he makes no apology for it.
Hon. Patrick Faber - Minister of Education
"There were some who felt that their case was not properly heard or the committee might have missed something and there was a process for them to make that appeal to the same committee to review it and so on; and that process as I understand is being completed. I will say this without wanting to start a quarrel that there are some teachers who honestly did not do what they were required to do. I have had many come to me who are pleading for some special consideration and outside of the criteria that has been set because that criteria people remember is special consideration because strictly speaking the law said that if you don't have it by time you just don't have it. But we introduced this special permit to cater for this kind of situation and yet there are some who honestly did not do anything and I'm sorry to sound unsympathetic but that is the reality; people didn't believe what we were saying, they didn't take us seriously and if we're going to make that significant change then we have to make these tough measures."
Faber expects that this school term will run smoothly with the new, qualified teachers.
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