Faber Eats Crow on Teaching Services Commission

Eating crow (archaically, eating boiled crow) is an English-language idiom meaning humiliation by admitting wrongness or having been proven wrong after taking a strong position. Eating crow is presumably foul-tasting in the same way that being proven wrong might be emotionally hard to swallow.

The ego of Patrick Faber may not allow him to admit this publicly, so while he’s taking a break to find some spin which will make him look good, the Belize Times thought that we should break the news. Reliable sources have revealed that in the face of massive opposition from the Catholic Church to the Teaching Services Commission in its proposed form, Minister of Education Patrick Faber has had to go back to the drawing board. The Minister had previously stated that he intended to take the amendment to the Bill to the House this month, but that agenda has been pushed back at least to the end of the year.

On September 14, the Minister and representatives met with the Bishop’s Commission for a meeting which lasted almost four hours. At the end of that meeting, Faber was forced to back down off his ramrod stance and to ask the Commission to submit their input for inclusion in the Teaching Services Commission. The Catholic Church heads the nation’s largest school management, and had publicly and aggressively denounced the Teaching Services Commission as proposed by Minister Faber. The Belize Times understands that the Church launched a massive campaign against the Commission, speaking against it during Mass and even handing out pamphlets to parishioners.

It must be a particularly humiliating experience for Faber, who took to the airwaves himself to promote the Commission, and was heard to say that he was going to push it through, ‘come hell or high water.’ The Belize Times will follow this story as Faber waits for input from the Bishop’s Commission into the Teaching Services Commission which is now decidedly on the back-burner.

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