Dear Editor,
I am writing this letter to you with a heavy heart, and I am asking to please publish it.
My child attends the Victoria Nursery School at the seawall side of the village, and it is my observation that too many times when I go to the school to pick her up the grass is very high in the school yard.
The grass is so high that it overtakes the playing equipment and would literally hide some of the kids if they stand in it as a result the children are prevented from going outside to play . Even as I am typing this letter the grass in the yard at some parts is over 3 feet and it seems that there is a lack of concern on the part of those responsible to get the yard weed.
I need not elaborate on the importance of children having a safe environment and the possibility of snakes and other dangerous creatures making these high grass their homes. I know the Minister of Education will agree with me that there needs to be a system put in place to stop this from constantly happening. It is a basic 16 thousand dollars to keep this yard clean every 4 weeks, is that too much for the authorities to do for the nation’s children?
To be clear and direct I was reliably informed that it is the responsibility of the Regional Democratic Council Region 4 to ensure that the school yards in this region are kept clean, why is the region not doing its work in an efficient and effective manner? Previously this task was at the feet of the heads of schools but now not only the heads, even the Neighborhood Democratic Council Region 4 is far removed from these responsibilities.
In addition it’s obvious to me that toilets that could not have been flushed at the Victoria Nursery School was fixed sometime around last Saturday June 11th for the polling day staff to use and the pipes outside were secured with some $200 pipe heads so they can was their hands, are we saying to our children and teachers that the elections staff are more important than them?
It’s bad that our nation’s children did not value much in the eyes of the authorities that they would see fit to fix these basic inexpensive needs for them. Are we a country that really believes that children are the future?
Less I be too long, it is as distasteful as the sight of the grass to have called the Regional Democratic Council at Region 4 and be transferred to the education department (ext 231), and to have a staff there who gave her name as Ms. Hoppi to put the phone down in my ears twice.
When I first called I was yet speaking and before I could ask her name she put the phone down, I called back and ask for her name and I was yet speaking she put the phone down on me again, this letter is not about the tasteless behavior of that staff but it would do will for the Citizens of Guyana that persons with that disposition be gotten rid of with much more urgency than the grass in in the yard at Victoria Nursery School.
Who are you to be putting down phone on citizens when they are talking calmly and gently? That piggish, obnoxious, and street like behavior is certainly not for the office and undoubtedly not for a citizen of my caliber. To take that attitude and invest it into keeping the school yards clean would do much better for our children.
Yours truly,
Please see the attached photos.
Samuel Gillis
