Genevieve ‘Teacher Gen’ Smith
Prime Minister Gaston Browne has announced that the Potters Primary School will be renamed in honour of veteran educator Genevieve “Teacher Gen” Smith, who passed away last week.
The announcement comes as a tribute to Teacher Gen’s decades-long contribution to education and community development. A respected stalwart in the education sector, she devoted more than 40 years of service to shaping young minds and uplifting generations of students.
Teacher Gen was widely known for her unwavering dedication, discipline, and passion for teaching. Beyond the classroom, she served as a mentor to fellow educators and a guiding influence within the Potters community, leaving an indelible mark on the lives of countless families.
Potters Primary School (photo by Dadli Directory)
She had to die to get her flowers.
Thats usually the case. Something has to happen for something to happen
All they ask for is to be able to afford life. A salary increase. But Instead we prefer to honor them when they are dead.
We are a sick sick sick species.
RIP mama Gen. We love you. May your death open the eyes of us all. Teachers deserve flowers before death.
You are so right!! At her age, the pension that she was getting may have been barely enough to buy nutritious food. An now she dead de running to put she name pon one school building??? De cudda do dat before she dead. An increase she pension before she ded!!
Whenever Public Sector workers get increase, pensioners should get an increase as well. A 1980s pension, in this day and age is not even for food money today.
GDP going up. Pensioners spending power going down!
A DIS IS IN A ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE!!
Great decision. Goooooooodddddd . She lived. She loved. She was very simple. Never boastful. She just loved people.
She taught with discipline and love. Many of us are who we are today because of her
Well deserved. Teacher Gen helped raise half of Potters. Her name belongs on that school.
She wasn’t just a teacher she was a community builder. Rest in peace, Teacher Gen.
She deseves an official funeral
Respect to the government for acknowledging a woman who gave her life to education.
Some teachers never leave the classroom, even in memory.