Comments on: Minister Responds To Infrastructure Concerns

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:53:30 +0000

They are getting their act together, it just that people don’t like the options that are left to them. Declining school enrolment, ever aging infrastructure, more infrastructure than is required or than can be maintained with the dwindling resources that the OBA has inherited. If it wasn’t for the economic stimulus of the AC, you can be assured that government would have even less now to be tackling this issue… and these issues didn’t just appear, the may be some new problems, but the majority of them have been known of and building for over a decade, and would have been far cheaper and easier to have dealt with back then than now.

By: New Bermudian

New Bermudian — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:08:34 +0000

How about underscoring the teaching problems? I’m not saying that we should ignore the maintenance issues, but all of this is really smoke screen for a culture of underachievement and poor classroom management skills. I have no problem with homework for my P2 child, but none of it, not one shred of it, exercises any creativity. All just boring worksheets and endless lists of spelling words. No Flat Stanley, no special projects, no art ever comes home, no homework returned. No indication of how he’s doing unless we ask. And this is in one of the ‘better’ schools. Just deplorable. So honestly- I could send my kid to school if it wasn’t in good shape if the quality of education was actually decent, but it isn’t. So, thanks, teachers. What are you going to do to enhance the experience of our children? Oh- that’s right, you can’t because the bathroom’s a mess…thank God we try to do things with him at home, because he sure isn’t getting it there. Schools should be safe- I agree. But let’s not confuse physical conditions with quality of education. Oh- and remember when every classroom in every school simply ‘had’ to have a smart board, because that was the only effective modern way to teach? Most of them don’t work now. And that’s not why Johnny can’t read. When will we learn????

By: Verly

Verly — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 12:22:42 +0000

Raymond Ray, how long can you continue to blame the PLP for the present administration’s shortcomings? Five years, ten?
Time for the OBA to get their act together.

By: Zevon

Zevon — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:27:31 +0000

Education didn’t matter then, did it.

By: Zevon

Zevon — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:26:55 +0000

Adults and paychecks is one thing. But kids were taken taken out of school to go join the mob on the hill. Education didn’t then, did it.

By: Build a Better Bermuda

Build a Better Bermuda — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 03:49:46 +0000

There is a holy trinity in any project management principle; time, quality and cost. In order to achieve quality, you need to face that your costs will be higher and the time will must likely be longer. If you want quality in less time then you need to pay more. If you want it done fast then you need to accept a lower quality (and an increase risk to safety) or higher cost, if you need to keep costs down then you need to face longer time and or lower quality. The remedials required for the schools are further complicated by the fact that there is a limit to what can be done while school is in (especially if you are concerned with the safety of our children) and that there are just too many facilities than we can actually support at this time.
The point is, you can try for it all, but you have to pay for it all, and even if we didn’t have the AC, we still couldn’t get it all. In fact, given that our economy would be worse than it is now with AC, we would have even less to work with, as you would have to be willingly blind and deaf to not notice just what the AC has already done to help our economic situation… and for that matter, what it has done to help diversify the education options to our children.

By: Coffee

Coffee — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 23:39:51 +0000

We’ll actually , sometimes teachers must make sacrifices to ensure a better future for the students . Up on the hill was a special one . Their paychecks will reflect the sacrifice . But Zevon you needn’t worry , no one will ask you for a friggin dime !

By: Zevon

Zevon — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 22:13:41 +0000

You didn’t care about the kids when you took them out of school to go spend schooldays up on the hill.

By: Sick & Tired

Sick & Tired — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:31:38 +0000

The Minister of Education Wayne Scott today issued a letter to primary school parents, teachers and principals to “underscore the Ministry’s commitment to address infrastructure problems in public school buildings.”

I don’t think the infrastructure problems exist only in the primary schools!!!

By: Raymond Ray

Raymond Ray — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:22:44 +0000

Thanks for your true concerns…There is no doubt there’s much work needing to be done but the general public must first acknowledge,”Rome wasn’t built in a single day”. Therefore Minister Wayne Scott stand firm these are problems you’ve inherited, they go back decades…Yes, during the former Governments (P.L.P) period with them ignoring the problems and now wanting to blame the O.B.A for their short comings )

By: have some backbone

have some backbone — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:16:40 +0000

….make it sooner than later….children’s health and safety depends on your swift response.AMERICA CUP CAN SURE WAIT.