Speeches by Susan E. Jackson

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to the Minister. That was a fulsome [delivery] and to be honest with you I could have heard a little bit more. But I understand that time is of the essence, and he did give a substantial amount of time to give an overview of the Ministry, of which I really appreciate. I …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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And it looks as though a bit of the funding also went into Clearwater, at $2,812,000. It looks as though Sa ndys Secondary also got some of the funding. So seeing that, I am wondering if the Minister can give us some indication of where the $2,469,000 will go from the Clearwater Middle School.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Which brings me to a very good point. So, on page B -136, still Head 17, Department of Education, I noticed that, again looking at Clearwater Middle School, which is towards the bottom of the page, line item 27530, there is an allocation for 2023/24 of 28 teachers. And it looks as though it has …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I really appreciate you allowing us to have this discourse because it is an important topic and parents and teachers and students . . . if they get all of this at once it is more understandable.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I really appreciate it. So, my other question then, whi ch leads into the teacher positions and allocations would be, Does this mean that some of the teachers may be offered positions that are not necessarily in their specialty? So teachers would have to make a choice about whether to move, let’s say, from a cl assroom teacher into a …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, I would like to . . . the Minister brought up a good point about the paraprofessional s. So I just want to turn to page B - 135, Head 17, Department of Education, and paraprofessionals is 27079. I have two questions: One is that I notice that every year we have the exact same number of paraprofessionals at …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes. I am just going to ask two back -to-back questions.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I am st ill on the paraprofessionals, 27079, on page B -135. So eight paraprofessionals accompanying students from Clearwater into other middle schools, so that is a manageable num-ber. My question to the Minister is, How is the Ministry going to manage if we do find ourselves in the situation where there may be a teacher in a class that …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister. So now I am just turning, flipping over to page B-136 to the employee numbers. So 27350, Francis Patton, is getting an additional eight teachers. And Purvis Primary (line item 27440 for Purvis) is getting an additional six teachers. But for the parish primary schools it is just one class. So there will just be the P7, …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister. So I believe that I understand that. And just sort of to summarise, it sounds as though, which is a great idea if we can get this working, would be that we may have in the early stages, let us say , a math teacher who may be teaching maths to maybe P6, P7, P8 eventually. But …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Yes, please.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Just taking a look at my notes. I am sorry. I know it sounds like a long period of time.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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I just want to make sure I have got things right.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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So page B -138. These are the performance measures. So as we are embarking on a new model for our parish primary schools and with Clearwater closing and the like, I just wanted to spend a little time and ask a few questions around the performance measures. So I am going to go to the programme 1707, Middle Schools. And …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Oh, there you are, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon, MP Famous.

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Good afternoon. Yes. And MP Famous had brought up during the parliamentary Question Period with the announce-ment of the closure of the Clearwater Middle School that smaller sizes, smaller classroom sizes with f ewer students, at least in the past there has been an argument that would say that children who are in smaller class sizes get more attention and …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Minister. And if we do, I can understand that getting the scores might be difficult right today, right now. But also if we might be able to just get an idea of the kinds of assessments, the tools that are being used to assess the children at this stage? And maybe it would be interesting to find out …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am going to stay with the performance measures, so we are tossing between page B -138 and I just want to move over to page B -139. Again it is not so much that I am trying to harp on the performance scores, but I believe that it is super -necessary for us to have …

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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—the end result, who are coming out of —

13 Mar 2023 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Who are coming out of senior secondary school with 45 per cent —only 45 per cent of the full class are achieving writing and reading. So we h ave got an issue, and if we are having more than half of our children graduating from senior secondary schools without achieving the assessment in writing and read-ing, we are …