THE EDITOR, Sir:
I WOULD just like to ask the relevant authority why is it that to get a child that is just leaving basic school registered at the primary school is so difficult. Why is it that poor people have to suffer to get a child to be accepted in a school?
Quite recently, I have been to three schools and the line that parents and guardians had to join to collect forms was almost impossible to form. They were told that they are not promising when they will get through and when they make their selections. So in circumstances like these parents have to be applying at more than one school on a yearly basis.
I think the problem is that we need more primary schools in Kingston mainly because the population is getting higher. The relevant authority needs to build more primary schools to accommodate the youths of tomorrow.
Children are indeed the future and everybody cannot afford to register their children for prep schools, so we need to provide opportunities for them from that early stage. This is not a good thing for parents to be fighting to get kids in school at such an early stage of five years old approximately.
I am crying out for help systematically.
I am, etc.,
MARK BELL
53 Gilmour Drive
Kingston 20
