THE month of December is almost finished and teachers who recently graduated from both the Valsayn and Corinth Teachers’ Training Colleges are now back in the classrooms.

However, up to now they can’t get their final examination results from the Ministry of Education.

The anxious teachers told TnT Mirror results should have been released, as usual, last September, in order that those who may have to do supplemental exams could prepare themselves for the scheduled December date.

“But look the month nearly finish and we can’t get results,” grumbled one concerned teacher.

“We would really like to know what’s going on.

“Everybody knows December is supplemental, and the ministry behaving in a don’t care manner with our results.

“Imagine, a simple thing like getting results to us on time is proving to be a big task.

“They didn’t even set a date for exam and they know why.”

Another teacher explained that a source in the Education Ministry alleged that an external examiner is yet to submit results.

“We don’t know if that is true, but whatever is the case, it’s very frustrating not knowing where you stand as far as exam results go,” added the teacher.

Mirror was told that some 400 teachers have been affected by the delay.

He went on: “You’re in the classroom, but the truth is that you’re not all that comfortable because how good or how bad you did in the exam remains on your mind.

“You are thinking whether or not you have to rewrite.

“Results are always on your mind …”

When contacted about the matter, officials at the Ministry of Education were tight-lipped.

In fact, an official in the office of Permanent Secretary Angela Jack, now out on vacation, transferred Mirror’s call to the office of the Education Ministry’s Communications specialist Mervyn Crichlow.

Crichlow’s secretary (who did not identify herself), when told that we were seeking a comment from Crichlow about the problems the teachers had complained to us about, slammed Mirror saying, “they (teachers) complain to you?

“But they know who to complain to.

“What exam did they write?” she asked.

When told that all we wanted was an official comment on the issue, she said Crichlow was not in office.