Princeville’s lone teacher needs help

For the past three years, the Amerindian community of Princeville in Region Eight had to make do with one teacher who taught classes from the nursery level up to Grade Six.

Sherlock Ogle has to teach 39 children and complete all the administrative work as he is also the acting head of the school, one source told Stabroek News. Paid a paltry salary that barely covers his trips to Mahdia to submit his monthly reports, Ogle tries his best but also has other duties and is a final year student on the Cyril Potter College of Education’s (CPCE) distance training programme.

“He is not (a) superhero, the nursery school children need individual attention and they need to be