Children deserve better

May 25, 2009

Dear Sir,

"But let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream." – Amos 5:24

I boldly declare that the woes of the curriculum of the Bermuda Public Education System will forever be with us until Bermuda rectifies its wrongs of the past.

I became Bermuda's first internationally qualified curriculum coordinator in 1978 – 30 years ago. I have never had a job commensurate with my competencies, skills, qualifications and abilities. Is this fair? Is this just?

Bermuda's curriculum development has been in the hands of Dr. Helen Stemler, a foreign curriculum consultant, Dr. Gina Tucker, the former Senior Officer for Curriculum, Instruction and Evaluation, Mrs. Maxine Esdaille and is presently in the hands of Mrs. Kalrita Conyers-Steede who has a background in business education.

Shouldn't our children be afforded something more than a failed curriculum in a failed system?

I rest my case in the hands of a God of Freedom, a God of Justice and a God of Equality.

"Shall not the judge of the whole earth do right?" Numbers 4:16

MURIEL M. WADE-SMITH, Ph.D.

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