Elena Smith’s misplaced concerns

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Under the Belize Education Sector Reform, a number of schools are being constructed across the country. These include pre-schools, primary schools and high schools. The objective of the program is to increase children’s access to education across the country.
And so it is that a new pre-school is being constructed in Camalote Village and it is well underway to being completed. The thing about the Camalote school is that it has somehow attracted the attention of the president of the Belize National Teacher’s Union, Elena Smith. In cyber-bully like fashion, the president took to Facebook to ridicule the selection of the name. It happened to be that the school is being named after the mother of the Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, Elizabeth Brown-Pott. Mrs. Brown-Pott is a trailblazer in the pre-primary education field and has been involved in this endeavor for decades, long before it was thought to be important. A better name could not have been selected.
Well not for Elena Smith! She has taken up issue with the name, taking the entire matter into the personal realm. Jealousy is a hell of a thing!
The most important thing in the whole scenario simply flew past Smith’s head! A pre-school is being built in a community that had limited access to pre-schools and the one thing the president of the union is concerned about is the school’s name. Should there not be other things that should concern her? Like the number of students who will have access or when the school will be opened or how many teachers will be employed? That the school will carry the name of Hon. Patrick Faber’s mother is secondary, isn’t it?