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Antigua Girls’ High School, Newgate Street, Antigua.
To the Principal of AGHS,
This letter serves as a statement to highlight the poor performance among the educators at the prestigious Antigua Girls High School.
As a principal, I recognise that you have a tough and demanding job and are passionate about helping your students succeed.
However, I am a concerned parent for one of the students attending your institution.
Firstly, I would like to commend the hard-working teachers who have taken the time to organize their subject curriculum and ensured that grades for their specific areas are entered into the system within a timely manner.
Job well done. With that being said, I do not wish to degrade your performance as a manager but rather express my concerns about the practices of your educators in aspects of, loosing student’s assignments, then assigning a zero percent grade.
Is it that parents should now request teachers to sign a slip to say that they received their children assignment.
Another aspect is the grading of assignment without any form of rubric to show marking criteria and giving assignment with word-of-mouth instructions on how the procedure should be done.
I don’t know about the other parents but even at a university level clear instructions should be given and I would appreciate going forward that measures are put in place to mitigate these errors.
I have spoken to you “the principal” on several occasions about my concerns and was assured that these issues will be addressed. Yet since our conversations the practice remains the same.
According to Gallup research employees are four times likely to perform better, when feedback is received about their performance daily rather than annually.
This therefore shows that feedback is a critical part of employee improvement.
Secondly, I cannot end before addressing a specific Agriculture teacher from the lower grades department.
Please take a break over this midterm to reevaluate your performance and your organisational skills. It should not be too difficult to recognize your short comings. To the principal, as the song rightfully states when the top slack the middle and bottom cant tight.
There is much more that can be said but as I stated this letter is only to highlight poor practices at the Antigua Girls High School, with an intent for them to do better.
Voice of Concerned Parents
Waslyn Simon 16th February 2024
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