Trade unions are supporters and proponents of the mainstream public education that can be accessed by all, inclusive of the poorest of the poor. Trade unions are vigorously opposed to the commercialisation of education that results in mushrooming of capitalist-oriented private schools, that sell education to the highest bidder to maximise their profit.
We believe, Madam, that education is a public good, and it needs not be sold to citizens. Education is a passport to prosperity for all of our citizens irrespective of economic background. It is on this notion that we become so glad and very excited when public schools such as this one excel, as this means that children of the poor are receiving quality education which would enable them to shake away the shackles of poverty. It is in this same vein, that we applaud teachers of Nanogang JSS for their continuous toiling to produce the best from the children of the poor and the common man, while faced with stringent and shoe - string resources, and exposed to deplorable and debilitating conditions of service.
