Dear Editor,
We the examination students of the Tucville Secondary School are begging for the intervention of some authority within the Ministry of Education to take us out of the plight we are now in. Students have been suffering at this institution for years and nothing is being done to correct the situation.
Most of the teachers never complete even a quarter of the syllabuses because of their own lack of knowledge of the contents It was only after some of us had begun attending lessons that we realised how little we actually knew. One teacher has even charged students $500 to mark their SBAs under the pretext that the SBAs were late. He had set the end of the Christmas term as his deadline for handing in the SBAs.
Apart from these problems, students who should now be studying for the examinations, which are only one month away, are unable to do so because our teachers who have failed to do their SBAs have now thrown all at us, to be completed within a few days. Mind you, we are made to write up SBAs that we never even did in the laboratory.
They are so many that all we find ourselves doing is trying, without any guidance, to complete them. The situation is so frustrating and traumatizing that students have been weeping daily because they fear that they will fail the examinations.
Our general feeling is that this situation has been allowed to go on for too long. Our future continues to be destroyed by those who should be the ones to make a bright future possible for us.
We call again upon the Ministry of Education to intervene so that our plight could be addressed and to ensure that no other student attending the institution goes through such trauma again.
Yours faithfully,
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