received a response from the Ministry of Education before they take any action on alleged "mismanagement'' at an east end school.

Parents, grandparents and other concerned individuals met in the St. George's Town Hall for more than two hours.

During the meeting, a five-member committee of parents explained the results of a three-hour meeting they had on Monday morning with chief education officer Mr. Dean Furbert, superintendent of schools Mrs. Vivilan Cooper and Mr. Ray Latter the department's senior resource manager.

The discussion centred on the simmering conflict between the parents and East End Primary's newly appointed principal Mrs. Cathy Bassett who has been at the helm only six months.

Parents claim that two veteran teachers have been poorly treated after a combined 34 years at the school.

One Primary Six teacher, a veteran of 14 years and the former mathematics coordinator, is today without a job.

She decided not to renew her contract as mathematics coordinator so that she could devote her energy to teaching Primary Seven students. At the time there was a vacancy for a Primary Seven teacher.

Later she declined the Primary Seven position because it will be phased out after the 1995/96 school year.

However, the wheels had already been set in motion and someone else applied for and was hired to teach her Primary Six class and the Primary Seven class she declined.

Since she had already made it clear that she was no longer interested in the mathematics coordinator position, it too was filled leaving her without a job so her only choice was to transfer or be transferred.

"This teacher has come through on many an occasion when other Primary Seven teachers have disappeared during the year,'' committee member Mrs. Sharon Kirby said.

"She has been the one person who in many instances has come and had to teach that class. In fact one year she was teaching two classes including Primary Seven until they found a replacement.'' Similarly, the deputy principal was recently demoted to teacher even though she reapplied for the position as the incumbent in February.

The committee allege that although this teacher sent in her resume she was rejected for the deputy principal position without even an interview with the principal as civil service policy requires.

And it is here that the crux of the conflict rests the parents claim, because in either case a decision was made regarding the fate of both teachers although neither were given "due process''.

Meantime, the parents committee also alleged that a non-Bermudain teacher who had been removed from classroom duties in the past, was reinstated.

"We have given them (the Ministry of Education) an opportunity to give us a solution to this issue,'' parent Mrs. Sharry Hall said. "Then we will come back and present it and decide where we want to go after that.

"We will decide the route we want to take based on the support we have.'' The Ministry of Education is expected to respond to the issue by the end of the week.

WOMAN PLEAD NOT GUILTY CTS Woman pleads not guilty A 41-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to attempting to export over $34,000, in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis bailed Gilda Armstrong in the sum of $500 until her trial on August 21.