A Voice For The Children In The Back Row — Kathleen Robinson

My partly-fictional stories embrace the words of Abraham Maslow, “we must understand love, we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion...” The stories/episodes take place between middle 1950's to early 2000's. Further readings are suggested for a deeper understanding of the overall educational system in the Caribbean. The theme is mainly on the impact of the interactions between teachers and students. The children in the Back Row could be seated in any part of the classroom; however, they are often generally relegated to the back row by the teacher so that they could be ignored – they may become ‘invisible’ for the non-progressive teacher. Many of those Back Row children are usually the ones with socio-psychological issues and there are others who are too challenging for the teacher who is incapable of readjusting eclectic methods to benefit all students. This is the story, based on the actual experience of the Voice.