As revelations regarding the finances of private schools are being disclosed, the Guyana Teachers Union General Secretary, Coretta McDonald feels that people are not being fair to the public education system.
McDonald is of the opinion that many of the Private Schools should not be operating.
She noted that many of those schools do not have enough students to call them a school, they don’t have proper sanitary blocks and don’t have a proper programme in place to be called a school in her opinion.
McDonald said “for that reason you find many of the private schools popping up today and by next week you hear nothing about them.”
The Teacher’s Union General Secretary hopes her counterpart in the Ministry of Education is taking note of what is unfolding and enforces the measures that are supposed to be enforced in order for persons to have a private school.
To compound matters, according to McDonald, many of those school are not registered and recognized by the Ministry of Education. She posited that some of the privately-operated schools are so at fault that they are refusing to pay their taxes and are charging parents huge sums of monies.
Mc Donald said the only difference between the Private and Public Schools is that the Private School is one entity. The GTU general secretary said in the public education system they are thousands of schools that one Ministry has to deal with, along with inadequate staff, hence the reason for some of the problems facing the public education system.