Hon. Fahie cautions Min. Walwyn about 'digging well' to put him in!
"It is those type of language when they come up that I have to clear the records at times because I know that we did well during our tenure," added Hon. Fahie, while noting that the staff at the time of his being in office as Minister of Education did well. “… and I wish the Minister well just as long as he refrains from digging a well to put me in.”
Nevertheless, Hon. Fahie is confident that the education system of the Virgin Islands has done well over the years.
“If there are weak areas the answer is yes.” The First District representative said the present minister is working on some areas, which he (Fahie) he is happy that he is working on. “Once they are working on the area of improvement not that nothing has happened because I do not agree with that.” Those areas specified were that of the special needs and the technical education. “But with a lot of what has been done, are we where we are suppose to be? The answer is no, we still have a lot of work to do.”
Hon. Fahie said that during his tenure as Minister of Education there were a number of things that were being worked on that are behind because there wasn't enough time to get everything done. “…and even when this term is finished with this Minister there will still be more work to be done because the area of education is dynamic, it doesn’t stay still and even when you fix you have to go back every now and then and deal with the physical structures and repair and maintain and improve and introduce new ideas. That is the whole cycle of an education system.”
He is confident that he has laid some foundation in the education sector but that is not to say that he didn't stand on the shoulders of the Minister of Dducation that he had succeeded. Asked if he thinks that the present Minister of Education is standing on his shoulders, the Honourable Fahie said, “Well I don’t want to say where he is standing but I know for sure that he met something, something that is solid enough left by all the past ministers to build on…. I look at it as the Minister is there to complete rather than compete.”
The now Member of the Opposition said that had he still been in the position as Minister of Education at this time he would have been pushing for some of the things that he was focusing on previously, especially in the areas of accreditation.
Asked for his opinion about the security system of metel detection at the Elmore Stoutt High School, Hon. Fahie said the system is not a new one since there were times in the past that such or similar systems were used at the said school. “Again you do not want to be seen as throwing water on the back of any party.”
He explained that the system was not used continuously in the past but was put into force on a needs basis. “There are times that we did a lot of spot checks because there were a lot of fights at that time so that’s why I say education is just a cycle.” Hon. Fahie added that during his time in office as Minister of Education he was faced with the issue of increased operation of gangs in the school system. “Not even only in my tenure, there were other ministers I remember that had to do it at times. So it is nothing new.”
While his said that he is not familiar with the policy as to how the system is being done as it relates to the recent re-introduction of the security system at the Elmore Stoutt High school, “If it is going to be done on an everyday basis, well no that was never done for every day before.”
His take on whether the scanning system is necessary, Hon. Fahie said that an ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure. “I don’t play politics with those things, they are our children. There are some children whose behavior is not pointing to where we would want it to be.” He accused some parents of not doing their best at instilling discipline in their children to a level that it should be. “So I do not see it as a wrong thing as long as they do it within the rule,” he said.
Since the system started on Monday, the procedure of students getting into their classrooms much-less into the school’s compound in a timely manner has been a challenge. “I wouldn’t throw a negative spin on it other than to say that I would think that that the officials over time would find a better way, or efficient manner to get it done…But anything to increase the security of our children...I am for it as long as it doesn’t violate anyone’s rights.”
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