 Cindy Alcindor. Cindy Alcindor. What do you do at the Ave Maria? I am currently a grade K teacher. Charlene Foshe Joseph. What grade do you teach at the school? Grade four presently. Joy Nolly is my name. I teach grade six. How long have you been teaching? I have been teaching for approximately seven years. But I've been at Ave Maria for three. What's it like teaching grade K students? It's actually really fun. I have a bunch of 24 beautiful little girls and every day something new happens. It's like there's never a dull moment with them. So it's really, really, really fun. What's it like being a grade four teacher in today's world? In today's world it's pressured, I could say that. But it's nice being a grade four teacher because of the age of the students that you teach. So you can influence them nicely, get a good balance and then they're not too old that they don't want to take correction. It's just that right age where you can, I guess, guide them. As a teacher, well, you would have been familiar with the allowance that you receive every year. Sometimes it comes in August, sometimes it comes in September. The allowance will be increased to $600 extra dollars. So that extra $600, how do you think it might benefit you and your students? Sometimes you have families who come in and the children don't have shoes. So, you know, we try to help out in whatever way that we can. There are students who have basic physiological needs that are not met. So we have students who come to school without breakfast who don't know where their meal comes from after school. There are students who cannot get new uniforms, students who cannot afford to go on field trips. So you would, you as a teacher, would actually use your allowance. You would have to use, well, of course the increasingly allowance makes it more comfortable for us to achieve these things because in some cases we would have to reach beyond the allowance as it was to cater to these things. For most teachers, it will go a long way. I know there are teachers who would surpass that limit but it will go a long way because every year when you come in, you want your class to look a particular way. So it's like no matter what, any little extra you get, it will go a long way. It definitely benefits the students. You see that you reach certain children with the little manipulators that they use. So for sure it is for the students. The timing is really commendable and it will be to the benefit of us because we are able therefore to prepare our classes ahead of September, school reopens in September. We used to get in at the end of September and I think that the environment that you introduce the students to at the beginning of September will set the tone for what happens for the rest of the school year. Why is it important? Why is it important for teachers to sort of not just create the environment in the classrooms but also provide sort of teaching resources? Why is it necessary to do that? So you find with teaching, it's not just about standing in front of a classroom. The kids need the stuff that they can actually hold and with technology now, you find there is a lot of videos. So some teachers actually purchase devices that they can use in the classroom and for us to keep a lot of the stock that we get, we need to laminate it. Laminating is very expensive. You need to buy your pouches and me, I'm going to speak for myself, I do a lot of ordering because you can't get a lot of your stuff down here. There is a place in Miku which actually supplies a lot of teaching supplies but there is a lot of stuff that you need to order so that helps a lot. It goes a long way. If you are familiar with the teaching process, you would know that teachers have individualized plans and individualized lessons. Why is that? So I guess comfort in how you deliver a specific topic. There are people who have different ideas on the best way, best practices for teaching a certain concept. So with that, we have our special individual unique plans and unfortunately sometimes the materials that are supplied by the ministry do not meet these unique plans. So what that allowance has allowed is for me in particular and I think I could speak for other teachers as well. It equips you in being able to get the resources necessary to undertake your lesson as you see it, as you plan. What does that signal to you as a teacher that the policy makers have decided, you know something, you guys and teachers need more to deliver a better educational experience to your students? What does that say to you? Having these persons, these policy makers inject that kind of revenue into developing our education system. I think that it's a positive step. When you received the news that the allocation would be increased, what was your reaction? I was like, yes, finally. Finally, finally, finally. I was like, it took them long enough. It was about time because we do put a lot, no matter what, teachers put a lot of their own money into the classrooms getting their stuff organized. So you find with that, it will definitely help the children. A $600 increase in the one-time allowance to teachers. When you received the news that the allocation would be increased, what was your reaction? How did you feel? It was about time. So I'm very happy about that. I think that it's a positive step. It will benefit the kids a lot and it will help the teachers. But for sure, yes, it will definitely help. It is absolutely necessary and I think that the decision to keep it and to even increase it is one that is commendable. Our economic policies go beyond revenue generation and are also intended to assist those who justly and deservedly require assistance. Thank you.