Laptop means test a waste of time

THE EDITOR: Open letter to the Minister of Education, Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly.

There is no need for a means test in order to get a laptop. How many times must parents beg for aid for their children to get an education?

You already have all you need for assessment of students. You have the names of those who had to collect and use hard-copy packages of study materials. Principals can give you the names of all who were in receipt of breakfast/lunch meals.

Also, one of the documents you are requiring is a job letter. So if the parents are jobless then the children cannot qualify for an education? And you want a utility bill? Do you know that TTEC and TSTT bills are always at least a month late, if they send one at all?

I cannot understand why citizens have to jump through so many hoops to get help. Have a heart nah! Think about it. If a child has a device would their parents really go through this nonsense to get another one? Humiliate themselves for this?

Use the resources you already have and stop wasting time. Three more weeks of wasting time. We can do better. We must do better.

ANNE DE SILVA

St Joseph