Dear Editor,
On one of my visits to Canada, someone residing there pointed out to me that citizens are really taxed but they see their tax dollars at work.
Now that parents in Guyana are taxed in relation to private school education, I am wondering what benefits they will have with respect to the following:
- The training and retraining of teachers in private schools via professional training programmes organized and implemented by the Ministry of Education.
- Making available resource teaching/learning materials developed by the Ministry of Education such as radios, CD players, DVDs, pupils’ workbooks, teachers’ guides, curriculum guides, textbooks, exercise books.
If the state caters for public schools only in its budgets, then we can only conclude that the VAT demanded of parents of children in private schools is punitive and intended to victimize.
Yours faithfully,
Krishna Nand Prasad
