Dear "Concerned Parents",
The letter received on Thursday is useless and contains no solution to our problems.
There were more than 200 emails sent to JPS and/or GEMS - 200 emails means 200 families. Assuming an average of two children per family, in simple mathematics, we would have a minimum of 400 children representing 40% of JPS' students.
It is time to unite all concerned parents into one organized "Parental Body" represented by one person, preferably a lawyer, taking the following actions:
1- Submitting a formal request to GEMS. The request should include our demands and to some extent solutions to the mess GEMS has created. We need to help them getting out of the "hole".
2- Organizing a petition and sending it to the relevant parties (ie Minister of Education) and following up with them.
3- Check HEALTH ans SAFETY issues and take necessary actions.
4- Contact local and international MEDIA and make sure that they publish our concerns.
5- Contact international private school associations and let them know what is happening in the "GEMS WORLD".
6- Contact educational experts and get advice from them.
7- Check whether we can legally establish an escrow account and have the future term fees blocked until solutions are found.
8- Inform parental bodies of the other GEMS schools as it seems that they are going through the same problems.
GEMS management and shareholders cannot act as they want.
We need to show them that they can have major reputational problems should they not behave in a fair way.
Suggestions on how to have all parents agree to the above are welcome.
How should we communicate together so we can take decisions?
Please come up with suggestions URGENTLTY - we need to take action immediately after EID.
1 comment:
You've listed some excellent points. As we need to keep communications centralized this blog seems to be an effective channel. All people who can contribute or take on certain roles (lawyers who know a good representative, people who have good media contacts, etc, etc) should come forward. If they prefer to stay anonymous we can find solutions to that). Also the class reps should play an important role. The class reps could exchange class lists so that we can build a fairly complete JPS parent database.
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