The Union of Professional Educators (UPE) has said that the failure to issue deployment notices to educators and the need to prepare lesson plans and resources with the school year commencing in three weeks’ time “have caused uncertainty and anxiety.”

In a statement, UPE said that “many educators have reached out to the UPE complaining that they have not been contacted by the Ministry of Education to assign them a class for the coming scholastic year.”

Schools are due to open for the next scholastic year on the 28th of September.

The union quoted an unnamed primary teacher as saying, “we have not been told what class we are going to teach, and now we have to prepare everything during the coming days! All this anxiety is unnecessary if the Ministry planned in advance.”

It said that another stated, “last year we were told a day or two before school started and it left me in distress”. The same can be said for many LSEs who up till today have not been advised where they will be deployed or what student they are going to be assigned to, the UPE said.

The UPE concluded by saying that it “cannot condone the level of disorganisation at the Ministry when it brings unnecessary hardship to its members. It is a fact that these abysmal circumstances have a negative, knock-on effect on our students.”

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