Doctors' babies blue; demand better schools
My dear doctors in the GMOA, I thought of writing to you to congratulate you on your campaign of trying to get your children into the top schools in the country by sending a group of doctors to the Ministry of Education to stage a protest at the Ministry and stay there overnight. I think it was a very clever move!
It reminded me of that Palitha chap from Kalutara who went to the office of a school Principal and hung himself from a ceiling fan to get children admitted to that school. I am not sure whether he did, but you must be delighted to know that people now think the same about the GMOA and Palitha!
I am also surprised why that chap in charge of Education, young Akila, that chap who is an expert on HIV, didn’t grant all your demands and send you all home. That would have endeared him to the GMOA and we would have all lived happily ever after. Instead, he decided to say ‘no’ to you.
Then, the Green Man also enters the discussion and makes his own views known to all by saying he does not think of any profession as being ‘special’. That is the entire issue here, don’t you think, dear doctors of the GMOA- that you consider yourself ‘special’, being over and above everybody else?
You argue that you want your children admitted to the most sought after schools in the country as you are transferred every four years and you can’t show that you are living in one area for a period of time. But so are so many other government officers. So, obviously you consider yourself very ‘special’!
Other people like judges, police officers, administrative officers and teachers all get transferred from their stations every few years if they are serving the government. We haven’t heard of them storming the Education Ministry demanding the best schools for their children- so you must be ‘special’!
You went to medical school because you were ‘special’ enough to beat everyone in the ‘A’ Level rat race. You got a free education that would have otherwise cost millions of rupees because you were ‘special’. So, it makes sense to preserve those ‘special’ genes by giving top schools to your children!
You are against private medical schools saying medical education should be reserved for the best of the best, those like you who get the best results at the ‘A’ levels. Yet, you want your children admitted to top schools without even passing the Grade 5 scholarship exam.