Cay: Schools chock full and flowing over

Cayman’s hard-pressed public schools are bursting at the seams and new students will find it difficult to enroll for the start of the next school year.
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The granting of Caymanian Status to more than 3,000 people late last year is one of the reasons that the schools have seen a significant increase in enrollment. Dependents of those who received status that were legally resident in the Cayman Islands also are entitled to Status, and as such can now attend public schools. Estimates range from 4,500 to 9,000 additional dependents that have become entitled to Status as a result of last year’s grants.

“The Government didn’t think through some of the implications of making so many Status grants at one time,” said George Town MLA Alden McLaughlin, “I’ve always said I was all in favour of allowing people who qualified to get Caymanian Status, but that we need to make room from them first. There were a lot of social and educational consequences of the Status grants that Government ignored despite the fact that myself and other members of the Opposition pointed it out to them.”

I wonder what people would say were the various state and city governments in the U.S. to take advice from McLaughlin?