The headmaster of Sand Creek Primary School, who allegedly physically assaulted three of his students, remains interdicted from duty with no indication as to when a team from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) will visit to investigate the matter.
“We have no control over that,” Regional Exe-cutive Officer (REO) of Region 9 Carl Parker told Stabroek News last week, while expressing that the matter should have been investigated urgently. He said the head teacher remains off the job and has to report to the Education Department every Friday. The REO said he was not certain when a team from the TSC would visit and indicated that the commission would usually wait until there it has a number of cases to investigate before it travels to an area.
The teacher had complained that he was frustrated because there was no accommodation provision for him in the remote community and he was living in the school building. Parker said the man remains in the community but he was not sure where he was living. Parker said, too, that the
