Monday 17 February 2014

Creeping



By this June, the school’s new auditorium should be open. This would be great, expect that I was supposed to be completed five years ago.   

It began as the grand dream of a former Parent Teacher Association’s (PTA) president. He recognized the need for a place where all the students could assemble at one time unaffected by the pelting sun or the rain. The building fund raising started off with great enthusiasm and there was talk of having graduation in the new building “next year”, which was 2010. The PTA president planned a series of concerts, barbecues, fish fries and other fund raising activities confident that if a certain amount were to be raised, the Ministry of Education (MOE) would chip in with the rest. It was a pity that no one thought to share this information with the MOE.