l Dear Sir,
I could almost hear the cheering in staff rooms across these islands as teachers learnt that President Bauza was on his way out. (Bauza quits top job. Majorca Daily Bulletin, 27 May 2015). There is a saying in business which states that if you want to treat your customers well, you have to treat your staff well. Similarly if you want to treat students well, you have to treat their teachers well. This was Bauza’s greatest failure. Everyone agrees that children in the Baleares need to leave school with an ability to communicate in English. The Spanish academic who said, “Without English you’ll die of hunger” was, of course, exaggerating but it must be very difficult to get a job in this part of the world without being able to demonstrate that you have at least an intermediate level of English. What a pity that the trilingual teaching plan (TIL) incurred the hostility of the majority of teachers in the Baleares, because of the insensitive way in which it was promoted.
Yours faithfully,
George Tunnell
Calvia
l Dear Sir
Last week I had my purse stolen on the no. 3 bus from Palma.
I am usually so careful but helped an elderly British tourist with a walking stick onto a very full bus opposite Corte Inglés on Jaime III.
The thief must have got on at the same stop as we could not move up the bus and I realised immediately my bag was open and my purse was gone.
I told the driver and there are cameras on the bus but no one is interested. When we reached Cala Major a European lady said “the thief has just got off the bus, they are on here every day. It’s cheaper to get a taxi”
It is the same story at the supermarket on the Bendinat roundabout.
My friend had €1500 stolen as he put his bags into his car.
How can the police allow this to go on when it is so blatant?
No one seems to care!
Mrs Anne Juliff