Teacher… The educator and selector

Glenroy ‘Teacher’ Myers

Many people have been rocking to the popular music of Teacher’s Disco without knowing how important the owner and selector of the sound is. They might have been thinking that he is just another sound system selector working for little fame. Nothing could be further from the truth. Those who really know Teacher think that he is the most educated sound system selector in the business today. He has been teaching at Cornwall College for the past 32 years. This may come as a surprise to those observers who think he’s just in his 40s.

However, this is not all. The man, christened Glenroy Myers, is a college and university graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Science Education (Hons.). He was born in Black River, St. Elizabeth, on May 28, 1956 and came to Montego Bay in 1968 after being awarded a Common Entrance (now GSAT) place to Munro from Black River Primary. His parents wanted him to split with his former companions and made a transfer bid for him to Cornwall. With the help of the father of popular lawyer, Carl Miller, Teacher, who is also called Scatty and El Frez, found a place of abode in Cambridge, St. James, after a successful transfer bid. He stayed there for two years after which he was allowed a boarding opportunity at Cornwall.

After graduating from Cornwall, he did two years of National Youth Service at Black River Secondary (1976-77) and then left right after that for the then College of Arts Science and Technology, now University of Technology (Utech). He left that institution with a teacher’s diploma in Mechanical Industrial Technology. He also left with fond memories of winning the 1980 Life Facey Award for the Most Developed Educational Student in his department, even though when he enrolled he did not know anything about industrial arts.

His first stop was a stint at Glenmuir (1980) where he taught Mathematics and Physics. It was while at Glenmuir that former Cornwall headmaster Dr. Dudley Stokes interviewed him for a job at that institution. From that time until now, he has been teaching Mathematics and Physics at Cornwall College. He was also marked CXC examination  papers between 1990 and 1994.

His life took another twist in 1990 when his mother died. His mother’s wish was always for him to further his studies. And to appease his mind after the death of his mother, he enrolled in the University of the West Indies via a teacher’s scholarship. His life took another interesting twist in 1998 when his daughter (Donnaree) passed on. 

Rather than turning to a booze and smoking like some other men, he sought solace in music and found it. He stuck to the older version of Jamaican music and integrated his sound system into a discotheque called Teacher’s.

Teacher lost his wife Joanna in 2008 to illness. His family is now just him and his son Glenroy Jr.