Princess Moss’s Video Transcript

NEA stands with the Jamaican Teachers Association in their fight for Reformation Now! and for the school's Jamaican children deserve.
For the past week, NEA representatives have engaged in a solidarity visit, where they have witnessed first-hand the urgent issues facing the Jamaican Education system. Nearly a year after Hurricane Melissa, schools remain in disrepair. Students are learning in classrooms without roofs and in temporary tents. Without enough functional classrooms, students are squeezed into overcrowded rooms, and class sizes are unacceptably high. Despite these conditions, Jamaican educators continue to achieve high outcomes for their students and teach with creativity and passion.
For too long, Jamaica’s children have been asked to wait for the schools they deserve. Jamaica’s students, educators, and communities cannot wait any longer and are rightfully demanding Reformation Now! No more learning in schools with leaky roofs ripped away by hurricanes. No more teachers migrating away from the island because they cannot afford to live and teach in their homeland. No more toddlers crying for attention in understaffed Early Childhood Institutions. We stand in solidarity with Jamaican educators demanding Reformation Now!
NEA stands in solidarity with the JTA—your struggle is our struggle.