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Jan 26, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am still astonished as to how passive we, the people have remained, in spite of the fact that the President of Guyana has decided to announce the date for General Elections on a day when our children should be writing their regional examinations.
It is clear that the Minister of Education and the entire PPP/C regime have no care or concern for the welfare of our children. The utterances of Ms. Manickchand on this issue, leaves much to be desired.
How can one, whose job it is to promote the education of our children, demonstrate such insensitive, disregard and disdainful attitude towards those very children?
The Minister’s recent comments on this issue are unfortunate, insensitive, disrespectful and unhelpful.
However, given her past positions and comments on public education, no one should expect anything different.
My position is that, since it is clear that this regime has no interest in protecting and promoting the interest of our children, we the parents, community leaders, teachers, and responsible citizens must make a conscious effort to protect our children.
The rights of every Guyanese child must be protected and secured. Ensuring that the education of our children is not jeopardized in any way is necessary to help safeguard the future of our children.
To have our children sit in a classroom to write examination on a day that the electorate goes to the polls in Guyana presents real mental and emotional challenges for our children, who must not be made to write any examination while they battle these challenges.
Even adults will not be able to concentrate on writing examinations on this day, why then punish our children in this way? Don’t we want our children to do well? Don’t we want them to write their examination in an atmosphere free of tension and uncertainty?
It is time the people rise up and demand that the date of this critical election be changed to a date when our children will not be writing these “life changing” examinations.
This entire situation is unfair to Guyanese students and demonstrates a clear lack of understanding or care for their future.
I therefore, call on all right thinking Guyanese to raise their voice in protest against the May 11, 2015 declared election date. Our children deserve your support, our children deserve your action on this matter.
We cannot sit idly by and just allow the regime to bully us on this, there is too much at stake.
If none of the previous atrocities perpetrated by this government have caused you to take action, this should be the one issue that unites us and conjure up enough concern in us to act for our children’s sake.
We cannot be divided on this issue, we cannot allow our personal political affiliation and leaning to divide us on this critical issue. We must act collectively for the Guyanese child.
I ask the Rights of the Child Commission to raise its voice, I call on the Guyana Teachers Union to defend our children, I call on all parent teacher organizations, political leaders, religious leaders, civil society leaders, youth organizations, parents and every other group or organization that is worth its salt to stand up for our children on this very important matter.
The future of our children depends on how we, as members of society, take action to protect and safeguard their future. Our own livelihood and twilight years depend on what they do later in life.
Their “success” or “failure” will dictate whether we live in grilled up pens or whether we relax in comfort and peace in our homes and communities.
For the sake of the nation’s children, let the election date be changed. It is the right thing to do; it is the human thing to do; it is the responsible thing to do.
A commitment to changing the May 11 elections date is a position that every Guyanese, regardless of race, political affiliation or religious beliefs etc. must support. The future of all of our children should matter to all of us. It is therefore, time we act.
Lurlene Nestor
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