Today former Minister of Education Fonseca says he agrees that teacher training is a priority and those who are not trained have to go.
Hon. Francis Fonseca - Leader of the Opposition
"Yes teacher training is critically important - we have to train our teachers, we have to give teachers every opportunity to get properly trained. Yes we have to weed out of the system teachers who are not effective, not performing and short changing our students. If not performing well and they're there to collect a salary then we have to get rid of them and that is where we have to work with the churches to make sure that that is being done, that teachers are being properly supervised and properly assessed. And when they're not functioning and failing our children, they need to go."
Fonseca also agreed with Faber on the issue of Corporal punishment – to which he said there must be alternatives:…
Hon. Francis Fonseca
"We have to accept that there are other ways of dealing with our children, I recognize that a lot of the teachers and the churches don't accept that, they believe that it was a mistake but I said at the National Assembly - I supported it at the time. I still support it, I think we have to find the right balance."
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