Teachers at St. Peter Claver Primary Take a Stand

This morning in Punta Gorda, seventeen Saint Peter Claver Primary School teachers lined the streets in town in solidarity with their school principal. The teachers say they are taking a stand against what they describe as an assistant local managers’ tyrant administration. This morning, teachers stood outside the school to express their discontent, saying that the administrative principal continues to be undermined. Teacher Ray Martinez told News Five that they sent a letter to the school’s board of management in October 2020, detailing issues that teachers continue to face. Three months have passed, and the letter has gone unanswered. Martinez says the assistant local manager has consistently overstepped her authority.

On the Phone: Ray Martinez, Teacher, St. Peter Claver Primary

“We have been discontent with the assistance local manager and her constant overriding of our administrative principal. According to the hand book of policy the principal has the role to governed the everyday activity of the school but our assistant local manager tends to come in and enact policies on certain things of her own idea and totally disregard the principal. We also have two vice principals who I must mention are the friends of the assistant local manager who tend to help in undermining the administrative principal as well. In the letter sent to the general manager, kind of explaining the areas of our discontent. We have seventeen out of the twenty three teachers who actually have a classroom. So it’s the majority of the teachers who are discontent. The letter that we sent was addressed to the general manager of Catholic school in October twenty ninth 2020. Now we are in 2021 and no concrete means on how you will sit down and address this issue. The assistant local manager has done some attempts but she is the part of the problem. How can we have somebody who is a part of the problem solve the problem.”