At last! Teachers get funds for additional resources
The government has responded to the pleas of many local educators who have been calling for additional learning resources. That response saw government allocate an additional $1,125,000 to provide some of those resources in 2023.
The $1,125,000 will be used to provide modern and effective resources to support different types of learners and will help to address other critical areas in the school system. Education Minister Shari de Castro said this $1,125,000 works out to $228 per child for the year.
She also said the funds were approved after her ministry petitioned the Standing Finance Committee.
“Whether kinaesthetic, visual, auditory, social, solitary, verbal or logical, our teachers will be equipped with much needed resources to diversify their delivery of instruction to achieve optimal learning,” De Castro said earlier this week at the reopening ceremony for the Elmore Stoutt High School.
Specifically at the Elmore Stoutt High School ESHS), the government has allocated some $100,000 to support all subject areas, including funding for initiatives such as counselling, student support, Rams Media (the official media/entertainment organisation for ESHS), as well as the purchase of equipment for the ESHS Steel Orchestra and the ESHS Drum Corps.
De Castro said that $100,000 was the amount ESHS administrators requested to help fulfill the mandate they are envisioning for the school year.
In the meantime, about $8,250,000 has been allocated in the 2023 budget under capital and recurrent expenditure to assist with the construction and maintenance of schools across the territory.
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All teachers welcome this as it is needed. Teachers spend a lot out of their pockets to teach us and should get some help in this area.
please install propper outside facilities so that our children can be accompanied by shade and shelter please;)
The upgrade of school facilities and assistance to teachers have been long overdue but it is a pleasure to see much is now being done in these areas. The new facilities at ESHS is awesome and so is the construction of the new JVD school facility. Minister, please keep moving in this positive direction.
Ms former teacher, where is the auditorium, indoor sports area, sitdown genetal hall and the list goes on. All it takes is four walls and a bathroom but then we in 2023, 21st century and moving along….! Building for tomorrow and not the future!!
Though this is a welcomed relief for teachers, it is quite disheartening to see professionals and very skilled intellectuals would agree to approve, design, and build a school without an auditorium, and inside eating space, such being the bare minimum in the 21st century.
It is a lost for words on this issue, it really is. One step forward and two backwards it appears.
Election promises and guarantee’s are like BVI insurance policies ,NHI , social security when you come to make a claim the only thing you receive are excuses .
How many volunteer teachers are there in our school system? Are they paid? If not, why not? What incentive if any do they receive? There are a lot of people suffering among us, and it’s my understanding that our volunteers teachers are not compensated. Have a heart for 2023 and look out for our volunteer teachers.
What about the Virgin Islands School of Technical Studies?
Well I hope when to do food and nutrition experiment the children will not be asked to bring stuff.
and whatever is outside is not enough for the children during lunch. what do they do now sit on the grass during lunch?