Run Over, Run Over Send Patrick Right Over!

A few weeks ago in this column I pointed out to the Minister of Education Patrick Faber that teachers were not ready for him. I cautioned, however, that when they were ready for him they would “juk him out of his cave.” Do you remember? Well at Friday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, Faber got a small dose of the teacher’s power. This “little boy,” as George Frazier put it, decided to push forward in the House the Education and Training Bill regardless of the teachers’ request for more time so that the stakeholders could look over the bill and recommend changes. Faber tried to put a different spin on the teachers’ objection, insinuating that the teachers were against elimination of Corporal Punishment as a disciplinary measure at school.

The truth of the matter is that the teachers are not against eliminating corporal punishment; they are dissatisfied with various sections of the bill and the way the Minister of Education went about ramming the proposed law down their throats.  You see, the teachers are no fools; in fact some of the teachers who went to protest Faber’s bill have been in the teaching profession before the Minister himself was born. Hence the reason Frazier referred to him as “a little boy.” The young minister almost broke down in tears when he saw and heard what his teachers thought of him and how they felt about him.

Not that I want to add insult to Faber’s injury, but I want he and his technocrats to get the sense, hence I will provide a list of things shouted at him through a bullhorn and on placards. While some signs stated that Patrick has no “cojones,” we will not agree or disagree because we don’t have definitive proof; hence we will stick with the less offensive ones. Here goes:

-“Who need fi get lash so he could listen?” “Faber!”

-“Who is selling the cookie jar?” “Faber!”

- “Faber: we want democratic leadership not dictatorship!”

- “Faber: Teachers will not be moved!”

-“BNTU – keep up the pressure!”

-“TRAITOR: MoE and FABER”

-“Run over run over, please send Princess Patrick over!”

-“Patrick come down; Faber come now!”

-“Patrick Faber was never a real teacher; a real teacher listens. We demand respect!”

-“MoE and PM, the teachers are talking to you. Better listen!”

-“How many times will the teachers send Patrick to office? ONE TIME!”

- Vacancy – Minister of Education…Qualifications – Common Sense!

You see, the more Patrick says that he is a teacher at heart, the more pissed the teachers are with him. You know why the teachers feel that way about “Princess Patrick”? The answer is simple as one, two, and three. When Patrick and the UDP were in opposition, he and his bally Dean Barrow used and misused the BNTU and the teachers to gain political mileage. Now that he is in office, they are abusing the teachers. It doesn’t matter how much Patrick bitches and moans and cries. He will remain a traitor in the eyes of the teachers.

In fact Patrick even went further and disrespected the teachers. He had the face of brass to say that the teachers on Independence Hill were either ignorant or politically motivated. That’s a slap to the face of our educators and for that he will surely pay dearly.

In closing, I want to once more caution the little boy from Collet – the teachers will be back on Independence Hill! And guess what, Patrick? When the teachers come back, they will wring every ounce of tears from your watery eyes.

If you were listening to the teachers Patrick, you would have heard that there is a vacancy. The teachers are in the process of receiving applications for the position of “Minster of Education.”  The qualifications teachers are looking for is simple, to have “common sense.” Other duties are to “listen to us (teachers).” In other words Patrick, you, your incompetent colleagues along with the main clown (Barrow) are members of a ONE TERM government. UNO!  Get the sense, ONE TERM! Do you like the teacher’s fum-fum?

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