We as parents, teachers, and administrators need to recognize less skilled teaching, weed it out by either training or making a tough decision, we need to expect more out of our kids, and we need to stop swallowing the lines of BS that we’ve been fed in the past. Small class size is NOT equal to student achievement. We were fed a line years ago that we needed small class sizes so our kids would get the individual attention they needed. Nonsense. What that did was dilute the talent pool of teachers- instead of needing maybe twenty excellent P1 teachers, you then needed something like forty or fifty, so you could restrict classes to ten or maybe fifteen at a stretch. So do we have that many excellent P1 teachers? Probably not. So we import them, we de-Bermudianize the teaching pool, and it’s easier to hide teachers who aren’t all that good. So let’s think about that for a moment.

Incidentally, expectations placed on the children at Prep are all around behaviour. Coming to school prepared, in uniform, with hair done according to school rules. Even lunchbox rules, about what they can and cannot have as food- no lunchables, no candy. So they behave well, and they perform well. And they are taught well.

Yep and it was also the school of choice 40 plus years ago.

Interesting, I thought they would (should) attend, this despite the meeting being purely an election ploy of the PLP. Of course it won’t change the reason the school must close.

While I agree that not attending will be seen as a disconnect by some, the school closure can hardly be a serious issue. If keeping the school open was so important to St Georgians they would send their kids there in greater numbers thus ensuring it remains open.

Boom!! my sentiments exactly, if the school was so important then why is enrollment down? Must be a colour thing, maybe its politics (laughs) no the Proud St Georgians are simply sending their kids to other schools.

Besides if she had been working hard for the East End voters as you suggest (laughs) St Georges would not have been neglected by the PLP as it had been. Also her crowning achievement would not have been getting a two way road turned into a one way road, something she claimed on doorsteps the length and breadth of her constituency prior to the last election.

I agree that the other OBA area MP’s have been very quiet even on issues relating to their constituency. They may still be working hard behind the scenes and are just not seeking the photo ops like Mrs. Foggo is doing.

The One Bermuda Alliance will be holding a Town Hall meeting on Tuesday, March 31st at 7:00 pm at Penno’s Wharf. Hosted by M.P. Kenneth Bascome, M.P. Nandi Outerbridge and M.P. Suzanne Roberts-Holshouser, brief presentations will be made by Ministers followed by an opportunity for questions. Presentations will be made by Michael Dunkley, Premier and Minister.

She was involved in St. Georges all this time, but did nothing while the PLP oversaw the economic demise of the Olde Towne, presumably because she dare not speak out against the PLP.

Where was her voice when the PLP took away the Corporation’s finances and prevented them from enhancing the infrastructure of the Town?

Where was she when the PLP closed the golf course and Beach It bar at Fort St. Catherine’s for a foreign entity who did exactly what with the property?

And if she truly loved St. George’s she would have extended her thanks to this Government who has done more for the St. George’s in 2 years than the PLP did in 14.

We, as parents, teachers and or administrators, should be aware of what the projected numbers are.

So if you want to know where she was……it’s simple, she was out there serving her community!!

Her level of care and understanding of St. George’s far outreaches that of MP Nandi Outerbridge!

Senator Ming is true blue!

Breaking up our culture??? LOL. Victim Mentality Much?

My father went to East End & my older brother started out at East End as well but this isn’t 1941 or 1965 & this isn’t about culture, skin colour or peoples political persuasion. 66 students next year @ cost per student significantly higher than all other Primary Schools & it’s increasing to unsustainable proportions… Nuff Said.

PS. Mrs. Foggo and all other PLP MP’s have been missing in action at the East End since 1998. Oh yeah silly me, I forgot Mrs. Foggo did manage one crowning achievement… She got a one way road changed. LOL

You can’t make this rubbish up!

Spot on! More Crocodile tears from the PLP.

Please sit down and keep quiet until you have something sensible to say.

It’s the stuff we need to know and figure out before critical decisions are finalized.

It baffles me how we are hearing worrying about history of a school the number of students are down immensely. There is nothing wrong keeping the building, maybe using it for community perspective projects. Heron Bay and Purvis is suppose to conjoin as one also. I mean seriously. This is waste of article.

Don’t let them chase us out. Remind them only you and MP Foggo care for the Eastend the others are missing in action. Bascome and Davis-outernobridge were a waste of votes.

You didn’t care then and you don’t care now.

Why doesn’t the Senator address the fact that East End primary is going to only have 66 students enrolled next year and is thus unsustainable?

Where was the Senator when her Party stripped away the finances for the Corporation of St. Georges which prevented them from ensuring the Old Town had sufficient resources to maintain the infrastructure?

Where was the Senator when her Party forced the closure of St. George’s golf course and the demolishing of a local beach bar business for a development that never came to fruition?

Where was the Senator when this Government injected $750k into the Corporation of St. George’s to allow for infrastructure enhancements to be undertaken?

Where was the Senator when this Government enacted a gas tax in which all proceeds go directly to the Old Town?

Why does the Senator all of a sudden have a voice and care about St. Georges when her Party did everything in their power to beat the area down to what it is now, while Dockyard got all the attention?

One thing is I do not have patience for hypocritical politicians who pretend to care. You don’t care about St. Georges Senator Ming, you only care about your Party.

If not then where were you when the PLP neglected St. Georges and oversaw