Dear Editor,
It is with great dissapointment that I write this letter on behalf of myself and the many basic school teachers in Jamaica.
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 most teachers were not paid their regular salaries, including the subsidy teachers in the basic schools. Up to Sunday, April 28, 2013 we checked the ABMs in hope of seeing our subsidy; still no subsidy, and no one to say why we have not been paid.
This is totally disrespectful to us as teachers.
It makes me wonder if the persons responsible for paying our subsidy have a conscience.
To make matters worse and unbearable, most of the basic schools have more than one trained teacher, even though only one trained teacher is being paid by the ministry. The other trained teachers have to live by the meagre subsidy.
The Early Childhood Commission needs to understand that we have families and bills to take care of. It is high time consideration be made for the other trained teachers in the basic schools. We cannot live on the meagre subsidy of $23,500 a month.
Dissapointed Teacher
St Catherine
What about us in the basic schools?
-->
It is with great dissapointment that I write this letter on behalf of myself and the many basic school teachers in Jamaica.
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 most teachers were not paid their regular salaries, including the subsidy teachers in the basic schools. Up to Sunday, April 28, 2013 we checked the ABMs in hope of seeing our subsidy; still no subsidy, and no one to say why we have not been paid.
This is totally disrespectful to us as teachers.
It makes me wonder if the persons responsible for paying our subsidy have a conscience.
To make matters worse and unbearable, most of the basic schools have more than one trained teacher, even though only one trained teacher is being paid by the ministry. The other trained teachers have to live by the meagre subsidy.
The Early Childhood Commission needs to understand that we have families and bills to take care of. It is high time consideration be made for the other trained teachers in the basic schools. We cannot live on the meagre subsidy of $23,500 a month.
Dissapointed Teacher
St Catherine
What about us in the basic schools?
-->