Hi Weatherman,

Thanks for your valuable contribution to this debate.

Let me explain that I am not using the words "funny" and “hilarious” in a comical sense either; and that I fully understand that you used the word "funny" in a strange sense. I am just being sarcastic and playing with words..

But believe me, when you have been to excellent schools and schools of excellence you have to laugh at the nonsense that goes on at both IMSA & SPSOM. The alternative is to go crazy. I guess, in the islands that’s how we poor folk tend to keep our sanity.

Do you know that in the 5 months I taught in these “institutions” there was never once a staff meeting, and basically there was no real proper organization? Can you understand that any attempt to bring order to the situation was thwarted at every attempt by the Diotrophetic E mail Dean ? Everything was dictated to you by email or phone.

Can you believe that during the course of the 5 months I taught in these “institutions” that I met the Chief academic officer only five times?

Can you believe that during the course of the 5 months I taught in these “institutions” that I met Dr S---- once, and on a unrelated mater. Can you imagine that when certain students and their relatives advised Dr S---- to ask my opinion because they felt I had something to offer, that this request fell on death ears.

Can you imagine that prior to this, when I called him to alert him of the junk that was happening at his school, that he could not make time to give me a hearing.

Can you believe that the Chief academic officer claimed to be following a tried and true curriculum from another school, but yet both students and teachers never saw a copy of this curriculum. (Oh by the way, the Chief academic officer was also the Curriculum Committee.)

Have you ever heard the saying ''Monkey see, Monkey do! Well the Chief academic officer saw a program he liked, but his ignorance, arrogance and inexperience did not enable him to copy it properly.

To me it is hilarious when a grown man does not know how to copy properly. If he did, he would have realized that to copy the program he wanted to implement requires more staff , rather than a skeleton staff of two teachers, to teach everything.

Most of the time you could not answer students questions about what would happen next, because you did not know yourself.

Once when one of the students asked the Chief academic officer for a program schedule, he replied curtly “What difference would it make?”

It was indeed hilarious to watch him mess up everything. I quickly learned to just say nothing. It was indeed a case of “The higher the monkey climb the tree, the more you see he tail."

I would never off course say that the program “is a real rip off.” But I will be politically correct and say that it is “challenged by very very many deficiencies.” Dr S and his "investors" are now fully aware that they are running a circus side show, but prior to late December, they did not have a clue. But now they are indeed fully aware of what is going on. fully…….fully…….aware

Trust me, weatherman, I was not laughing then, but I am laughing now.


To be continued………..