WBD schools ‘need repairs’

Jan 15, 2014 News

– Parents complain of feeling neglected by regional authority

As the rain continues to come down in torrents, parents of those attending the Vergenogen Nursery and Malgre Tout Primary Schools are apprehensive about sending their children to the institutions of learning, given the condition of the buildings.
According to parents, the roofs of the two schools are leaking, there are missing floor and wall boards.
“When it rains, the teachers have to shift the students onto one side of the classroom just so that they don’t get wet,” one parent claimed.
The woman, whose four-year-old daughter is attending the aforementioned nursery, explained that the school building needs to be extensively repaired, since there is more than one structural defect.
She said that complaints have been made to the school’s administration.
The parent told Kaieteur News on Sunday last that letters have been written to the regional authority, but their plight continues to be unaddressed.
“Me ain’t know what else we must do. The rain falling every day, and the children does get wet even in the classroom. How is that right? The school yard does always flood, and even though it unhealthy, we does still send we children to school. But no! Me ain’t prepare to tolerate them getting wet inside the building. Come on man, have a heart; this is unacceptable,” the mother of two stressed.
Meanwhile, Andy Greene, whose 10-year-old daughter attends Malgre Tout Primary told this newspaper yesterday that he is considering whether or not he should start organizing a protest, since “this is the only language dem big ones does speak.”
The man added that countless complaints have been made by parents to the schools’ administration, but the same situation continues.
“How you could get dem small, small children studying and learning dem school work in dat kind of environment? Something got to be done. Some days when the rain start fall, I don’t want to send me child to school, but I know it important and she got to go,” the man said.
Kaieteur News understands that even the Head teacher’s office at Malgre Tout Primary is leaking.
Meanwhile, Alliance For Change (AFC) Councillor for Region Three, Harry Deokinanan said that he raised concerns about the condition of the schools six months ago at a statutory meeting, but since then, nothing has been done.
“The only thing that they does say when you bring things like that up, is that they gon put it for the next budget,” Deokinanan said. He added that while he is sure that the Regional authorities would want to extend invitations for “expensive” contractors to repair the school, there are carpenters and labourers attached to the Regional Office who can do the job.
Collectively, parents said that they feel neglected by the regional authorities, and are calling on the Ministry of Education to look into their plight, and that of their young children.

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