The Editor, Sir:

Am I to believe that our new Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, is without a cadre of technocrats who can fulfil the duties of new hires Alphansus Davis and Ruel Reid? The very basic functions of articulating and tweaking policies with regard to promotion, reclassification, school management, etc., should hopefully have nothing to do with pulling these gentlemen away from their all important assignment of being principals.

There must be more substantive reasons behind Holness' scheme. As a bureaucracy, the Ministry of Education should already have employees with these skill sets to get the job done. My hope therefore is that these former principals are replacing two ministry technocrats who have failed to deliver. Anything short of this will mean that the honourable minister is simply in the business of making his portfolio more cumbersome and costly. Peace and love!

I am, etc.,

Dr. RICHARD KITSON

k-w@comcast.net

Baltimore, MD

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