Jane, I agree with you 100%! I feel that the USVI is a wonderful place to raise my daughters for this exact reason. I love the way the women here st...

I am a 105.3 (105 JAMS) junkie and proud of it-Soca, reggae, hip hop, and RnB. I switch back and forth between this station and 90.5 (Isle 95) out of ...

I love the Jackson Wellness Center over at Antilles: I used to belong to the Nisky gym but that place is really dirty, equip. is always broken, th...

I don't know of any private computer related companies, but if you would like a Government position, I suggest you call Mr. John George on St. Thomas-...

As a classroom teacher, it was initially difficult to understand what the students were saying, along with the local teen slang. I had to move around ...

I guess my biggest question is, how will you financially survive down here while paying for and taking classes at UVI? Especially when you student tea...

Good luck to you Christie. If you would like to get your foot in the door here at Charlotte Amalie High School, you can email Principal Jeanette Smith...

Here's the link to benefits for public school teachers : There are even downloadable PowerPoints on the Health and Life Insurance benefits. Y...

Wow rypan, it really depressed me to open this thread and read all of those initial negative responses to your post. I've been living and teaching on ...

I am dreaming of waffles.................

Well said, sttarfish-this is the type of positive mindset that we need to encourage in education. I'm not saying that we have to settle for poor condi...

Valid points bnk, but I'd like to know the names of schools that you know of that operate solely without parent or community volunteers. It's not just...

Marie, I resent you referring to the public school system as "Third World Teaching". Are you a teacher in a public school? A large percentage of us...

Thank you Melody for this heartfelt post. I'm sure that everyone has heard about the shooting at CAHS yesterday and we are having to deal with yet ano...

Tiffine, I never did a pre-move visit and had never been to STT before in my life but I did have a job lined up before I moved here with my husba...

Thanks Mell, I think at this point they are still assessing the structural damage and the chance that classrooms on the ground level may have been f...

Thanks Melody, and it was great to hear your voice again. The students are pretty upset as well with the situation, hopefully they will dismiss school...

Yes mmilhauser, I got your message and I'll send you a lengthy reply when I get a chance 🙂 My daughter in 7th grade currently attends All Saints, ...

Just a quick comment on safety on STT: I do go out on Friday/Saturday nights and walk between the Green House and Walter's/Changes but I always g...

Thanks EastEnder, I consider stateside teacher recruitment to be one of my personal missions 🙂 That's a sad story about the teacher's experience a...

You go, Tecara!

Thanks Onika, I used to post on here all the time but then my schedule became too hectic. One of these days I'll finish writing my moving story a...

All right, CT teachers!!! Come on down! I moved here from CT almost 3 years ago. I had never been to St. Thomas before and I was hired after applying ...

Hello Melody! Glad you got the dog situation worked out, it was good to talk with you. How is the teaching job, thus far? Don't you love how the Com...