DEAR Editor,-
The Department of Education (DOE) is supposed to take the lead in promoting education by showing its appreciation to all its teachers and principals who retire after long years of service.
Before, or upon retirement, the DOE should at least send a letter of thanks to all retirees for appreciation for long service. This is not done. Why?
Some teachers who retire still have valuable skills to offer pupils, but none of this is negotiated or tapped. New teachers are appointed almost daily, but they lack experience. Released text books lack guidance for all new teachers and in most subjects, especially mathematics, text books confuse teachers.
SEMs (Superintendents of Education Management) offer little or no guidance to teachers and ‘workshops’ are not workshops, they are just meetings. If we really hold ‘workshops’ in the true sense, our teachers would go away enriched.
I therefore appeal to the DOE to make use of retirees’ skills and to conduct real workshops, to make education meaningful and highly appreciated.
SWEADY CHETTY
Umtentweni
