Comments on: OBA: ‘School Principals Facing Burn-Out’

By: Anbu

Anbu — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:12:48 +0000

They will never admit the extra money came from the “boat race” tho.

By: Jevon

Jevon — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 16:49:41 +0000

As a person that works in Education and have seen emails time stamped after 4am and 5am, 18 hour work days are not unheard of. When your Deputy spends the entire weekend at school trying to get ready for school to start.

Those hours aren’t always spent at the physical school probably but doing 18 hours in a leadership position position I would say is common place.

By: Foundation

Foundation — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 14:09:06 +0000

True, but remember the pay increase the PLP gave teachers and firemen last year, the 2%? That money was OBA profit money from that boat race. Politics is a cloudy, murky thing…

By: comfortably numb

comfortably numb — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:08:57 +0000

Utter BS! As far as I’m aware, no public school principal has a teaching load, unlike their counterparts in the private system who do have limited timetables but do teach to get a “feel” for what’s going on at “ground level”. Perhaps if public school principals did venture out from their air conditioned offices from time to time we might see some improvement in the abysmal levels of achievement in the public system.

By: Bs

Bs — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 03:44:57 +0000

This is 100% BS! 18 hours a day? Cmon man stop being so dramatic as it makes all other points incredulous! Stupid politician!

By: Lol

Lol — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 01:14:23 +0000

Where was all this concern for education when you all decided taking money out of the school system to fund a boat race was more important?

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:57:35 +0000

Yawn

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 00:56:45 +0000

Disney Cruise left Goofy behind.

By: Teacher

Teacher — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 23:51:35 +0000

Social promotion has been going on for a long while now, and under various governments, and under Cole Simon’s tenure as well. Simply put, there are so many issues, so many factors, so much incompetence from the upper echelons, that NOTHING that is ever implemented will either last or work properly. I will never blame poorly trained teachers and inefficient principals, because we must always ask “ who hired them and who is appraising their performance or lack thereof?” The education Apple in Bermuda is rotten at the core, and only by slash and burn will we have any hope. The whole apparatus needs to be broken down and rebuilt properly. At the end of the day, the kids are the only ones that suffer with our political tug of war over their education.

By: Duh

Duh — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:46:35 +0000

As was the case when you were Ed Minister Sir. Stop Bogarting!!!

By: STRAIGHTFORWARD

STRAIGHTFORWARD — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:29:21 +0000

The irony of it all.Mr. Simons, in being the THEN Minister for Education, attended a graduation at Berkeley Institute, only months ago.
Dr. Curtis-Tweed, Bwerkeley’s principal then , scolded Cole Simons , Dunkley and those of the oba who attended the function.
Dr. Tweed stated that oba had channeled barely any funds towards Berkeley’s betterment.
Mr. Simons speaks out of a 4- sided mouth!!He speaks nonsense. He could care less about the thousands of Bermudian students at Berkeley, but has the nerve to talk about principals’ burnout.
He could care less. His track record proved that!!

By: Triangle Drifter

Triangle Drifter — Thu, 08 Nov 2018 22:17:24 +0000

18 hour days! Oh really! Who believes that one? Not even close. Not in our public school system. They might get a little sympathy if they were a little more truthful. The occasional 10 hour day might be a little more believable.