Our Children Deserve Better
We hope you’re not having a meal, because these pictures will put you off food for sure. These are the filthy bathrooms at St. Croix Central High School, shown in photos taken within the past three days. Participants in the recent All-Star Basketball tournament held here were forced to use these facilities – that is after they spent their time in the gymnasium dodging the rats. And some of your children go to school here every day.
How many deadlines have passed to get this done? How can we expect our children to learn in these putrid conditions?
Unsanitary conditions are part of what is standing in the way of accreditation for this school. Here’s our question – Why does Middle States have to tell us that our schools should be clean?
What school did Governor deJongh’s two older children graduate from? Where does the young one go to school?
Need to know ANYTHING else?
Children should be responsible to clean up after themselves. I believe that the schools should have a cleanup day at the end of the school year and have the students clean the school. This would instill a sense of responsibility and they would be vigilante in maintaining a clean environment. Remember, it is the Government footing the bill to educate the children in public school. Therefore, something should be given back. We should not be relying wholeheartedly on the Government to fix every ailment! However, when a fixture is broken, it is up to the institution (which ever school it is) to make sure it is immediately fixed. This would prevent further problems that eventually lead to dilapidation.
When a principal can tell a parent that his secretary was to busy to type a two line letter to send home to the parents to let them know that the FINAl report cards where wrong ” What is this saying about the professionalism of Mr. Felix Durant?” especially when he is not a native Virgin Islander and could care less about the native born chikdren of the Virgin Islands