All parents of a Government School in Fatorpa, Quepem have kept their wards away from the school on the grounds that there are no teachers in the school. In a show of political tamasha, the local MLA visited the school and assured the parents that he had had a telephonic conversation with the Education Minister Babush Monseratte. The minister asked him to bring a delegation of parents to meet him in the afternoon and he would solve the problem. (Prudent Media report)
My question: Why must the parents meet the minister? Are they some sort of serfs to touch the hem of the great Lord in Panjim some 70 km away, before they can get their problem solved? Surely isn' t the very fact that all the students (some 130 in number) kept away from school is enough for the local Asst. Director of Education, the Director of Education and the Minister to act? Tony -- Tony de Sa Ph: +91 832 2470148 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] M: +91 9975 162 897 ----------------------------------------------------------- Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation. - Jack Nicklaus ------------------------------------------------------------
