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The book is about a teacher in the public school system in the Bahamas who experiences life changing events. She was posted on the island of Andros where she was almost mobbed by a group of parents. This mobbing led to a mental breakdown. She also experiences supernatural events which involves the working of obeah. She shares her experiences of mental illness and the spiritual world.

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Publié par	Xlibris US
Date de parution	26 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669839309
Langue	English

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The Calling of Rose

Nicey Hamilton

Copyright © 2022 by Nicey Hamilton.

Library of Congress Control Number:
2022913705
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978-1-6698-3931-6

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978-1-6698-3932-3

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978-1-6698-3930-9

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CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
CHAPTER TWO
CHAPTER THREE
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER FIVE
CHAPTER SIX
CHAPTER SEVEN
CHAPTER EIGHT
CHAPTER NINE
CHAPTER TEN
CHAPTER ELEVEN

September 4 th , Andros Island, The Bahamas
CHAPTER ONE
“Pack your S… and get out of here before I kill you!” the angry woman shouted to Amber as she came right up into her face. Another teacher who heard her said, “Oh No Liddy, you can’t tell her that!”
A few minutes ago, Amber and the Principal had had a confrontation. They had exchanged words and now the principal had organized a group of parents to make Amber leave the campus. The principal wanted Amber to take a transfer and leave the school because they did not see eye to eye on many matters. Amber was the Unions Shop Stewart and she had made numerous complaints about the school, inoperable urinals to open cesspits covered with wooden boards. Amber had photos to prove this. The principal was furious with her and had requested that she be transferred. The Ministry wanted to transfer her to a School twenty miles away from where she lived. They wanted to transfer Joan, Amber’s sister, who was also the Shop Stewart to a School forty-five miles away from where she lived. The principal had organized this group of parents over the summer and every morning they gathered across from the school. Amber had no idea what was happening. Amber had written to the Ministry and her transfer was rescinded. The Superintendent at the time was a friend of the principal and he had arranged the transfer. Amber had told him that she had not served her five years and that she had one more year before she could be transferred. The Superintendent did not budge, he was intent on teaching the sisters a lesson. He also did not like the sisters’ father, David.
The parents had gathered across the street from the school and was stopping cars, urging them to join them. They were carrying on like rioters. Amber who did not have a cell phone told her son, Owen to go across the street to her sister Victoria and ask her to come there. In no time Victoria was there and she informed her of the situation. The principal had told her that she had no right to be teaching because she had two children and was not married. “Not one, but two children out of wedlock!” the principal spilled out. Amber spatted back “And you sleeping with a married man!” The argument got worst.
The crowd was getting larger and more unruly. It looked like a scene out of an African movie. The people were behaving uncivilized. However, there were some people who refused to join them and told them that they should go home. After a while Amber’s sister Joan arrived. Joan was also a teacher and was assigned to another school. She urged Amber to come with her to the police station. Amber followed her to the police station. She had planned to make a formal complaint but there were no police officers at the Station. The only person there was the custodian. They were amazed, an unmanned police station. Where were the police officers?
By 1pm the incident was all over the national news. The news reported it as though there was a physical confrontation. The incident stayed in the news for weeks with reporters coming to the island trying to get interviews. The Teachers Union President got involved and so did the Minister of Education. They argued back and forth in the media. Before long the entire country was involved, everyone wanted to know who was right and who was wrong.
Amber and Joan started a petition from Behring Point in the Southern part of the island to Lowe Sound in the Northern part of the island. They were able to gather close to one thousand signatures. The sisters were amazed at the love and support they received from the people they visited as they solicited their support. Amber was so affected by the incident that she burst into tears every time someone asked her to tell them what had happened. Every time she remembered the mob it made her breakdown. Those people really wanted to hurt her. Now she knew how a lynching felt like. She also cried when the news came on and she would hear her name on the radio or T.V. At one point her three- year- old daughter said, “Mommy, I hear your name on the T.V, they say Amber Anderson.” Her daughter’s realization broke Amber’s heart. Her daughter Ruth was barely three years old. The incident brought many families together. It was the conversation at every dinner table, in every restaurant and bar. It was the sermon being preached every Sunday. It brought many relatives who were previously at odds together again. People who had not spoken to each other in years now put away their differences and banded together. Amber’s parents David and Ann received hundreds of phone calls and countless visits from people who tried to comfort them and help explain what had taken over those people.
The rioting, picketing and news reports that lasted for weeks took a toll on Amber. She was afraid to turn on the TV or listen to the news. She did not go to the food stores or venture outside her home. She stopped sleeping through the night. She began skipping meals and when she did eat, it was sparingly. She lost a lot of weight. She was sad and afraid all the time. Her fiancé, William, did his best to comfort her. He was willing to hurt anyone who had hurt her. He was angry with what her own people had done to her. “Snap out of it Amber, don’t let these people get to you, you have to be strong for the children’s sake.” Amber couldn’t stop crying. She had experienced a mob of people, all trying to hurt her. Hurt her, without a reason, without a cause. She could have lost her life that day. It was ironic because it was the day of her thirty-eight Birthday. What a birthday present. She was teaching and doing so well in New Providence. Why did she come back home to teach? She thought she could make a positive difference. She did not have a single problem with any of her students nor they with her. She would write stories for her students and share with them. She would pour her heart into teaching them. She gave each of them individual attention. She taught them and made sure that learning was taking place. She was not a trained primary school teacher but was trained for junior high. She had accepted the position in the primary school because it was the only vacancy available. Her appointment letter had stated that she would teach her subject Social Studies but the principal had given her a sixth grade.
Thousands of people from around The Bahamas voiced their support of the teachers on talk shows, in the media and in Newspapers. The country wanted to know what the problem was. Why did the parents want the teachers transferred? Some of the parents stated on the news that they wanted them transferred to another island. One parent actually said “Transfer them to Long Island!” Some parents did nothing to hide their hatred of the teachers. After a while they went after the sisters’ father David and made placards to get rid of him as well. David was one of the leading men in the community. He was a decent, honest and no- nonsense man. He had done much to develop the community and now some people were trying to get him to leave the island. The sisters travelled to Nassau and met with the authorities at the Ministry. Nevertheless, the Ministry informed the sisters that if they did not take the transfers their salaries would be stopped. The Minister of Education and other persons in the ministry denied that a letter rescinding the transfer existed for Amber.
A group of parents gathered at the school every morning to prevent the sisters from returning to their perspective schools. At one point there were police cars. No one was sure why they were there. Was it to prevent the sisters from returning or was it to control the crowd? The Teacher’s Union told them to remain at home as they tried to resolve the problem with the Ministry. Some parents boycotted school, stating that they will not let their children return as long as the teachers were still assigned to their perspective schools. The sisters had done no wrong, they did not have a problem with any of their students. They were both excellent teachers and had attended school with the parents of some of their students. These parents who were protesting did not attend college, did not have high paying jobs and resented the sisters. Some of these parents were their very own