The headmaster of Sand Creek Primary School, who allegedly physically assaulted three of his students, remains interdicted from duty with no indication as to when a team from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) will visit to investigate the matter.
“We have no control over that,” Regional Exe-cutive Officer (REO) of Region 9 Carl Parker told Stabroek News last week, while expressing that the matter should have been investigated urgently. He said the head teacher remains off the job and has to report to the Education Department every Friday. The REO said he was not certain when a team from the TSC would visit and indicated that the commission would usually wait until there it has a number of cases to investigate before it travels to an area.
The teacher had complained that he was frustrated because there was no accommodation provision for him in the remote community and he was living in the school building. Parker said the man remains in the community but he was not sure where he was living. Parker said, too, that the matter was also reported to the police but he was not sure if any action was taken.
Stabroek News had reported last month that the teacher who took up the post of Headmaster at the beginning of the school year after being transferred from Potarinau Primary reportedly admitted to assaulting the students because he was frustrated with his living conditions.
“He was frustrated by the fact that he was made to sleep in the school building. There is a headmaster’s house there but apparently it was not to his liking. Nobody reported it to the regional administration though. If he was dissatisfied then he should’ve reported it to his immediate supervisor,” Parker had previously said.
It had been alleged that the headmaster hit two girls and a boy to their heads with a school bell because they were late for school.
The three students were forced to seek medical attention at the Lethem Hospital on October 8, as two of them sustained head injuries. The 10-year-old boy sustained a minor cut to his head while the cut sustained by one of the girls required four stitches.
