TTUTA on outstanding repairs: Some schools may send students back home soon
All is not well at several of the nation’s schools, TUTTA’s president, Martin Lum Kin, is warning.
He says the Education Ministry’s claim that all schools reopened on Monday was merely public relations.
Lum Kin told Guardian Media there are schools that will be forced to send students back home, very soon.
“There are instances where teaching and learning will not take place,” the TTUTA president said. “There will be instances where the school will have to be closed. So, you’re bringing them out as a ceremonial aspect, just to say that all schools—and I saw the release; it was in bold—all schools reopened.”
Martin Lum Kin says the physical condition of schools has a direct co-relation to the performance of students.
“The environment is a major factor that can impact positively or negatively on the students and the teachers as well,” he notes. “So, you’re speaking about motivation, and the whole level of comfort [in which] teaching and learning can take place. If it is not satisfied, then you will have challenges.”
On Monday, children at the Palmyra Hindu SDMS Primary School were forced to return home due to a rat infestation, while parents of students attending the Mount Hope Secondary School staged a protest demonstration to highlight poor conditions at the school.
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