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Schools reopen tomorrow, and the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association will be out bright and early, staging protest action. This as TTUTA reps will join members of the Mt. Hope Secondary PTA outside the school, to address a number of issues. Meantime the TTUTA President tells TV6, the Association is also keeping a close eye on a number of other issues at several schools across the country. Rynessa Cutting has more.
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00:00While the majority of parents and students will be bustling back to school on Monday,
00:05tutor reps will be visiting several schools, and even engaging in protest action outside
00:10Mount Hope Secondary.
00:11In St. George's College, we have Mount Hope Secondary, and I can tell you that the parents
00:19are planning a public demonstration tomorrow morning, and a tutor will be present to lend
00:26its support because of the lack of attention given to that school, although emergency
00:33routes have been recommended on a number of occasions.
00:38Tutor says while most of the schools are ready for reopening on Monday, quite a number have
00:43pressing concerns which need to be addressed.
00:47We are looking at the Gaines-Normal AME, Malik Secondary, Mover-Lavant Hill Secondary, St.
00:58Joseph's Secondary, San Fernando Central Secondary, Pleasant Hill Government Primary School.
01:09The tutor president also laments that many children continue to be housed in temporary
01:14facilities.
01:15There are a number of decanted schools that have not been given the attention.
01:21Palmis Government Primary School, as the public was well aware, had a fire last term, and
01:30to this date nothing has been done at the original compound.
01:35The school is split into two, one at the Londonville Government Primary School and the other at
01:41the Edinburgh Community Centre.
01:45We have the Pre-South Government Primary School, we have the St. Dominic's Penal Arts Primary
01:52School, also at the Community Centre, Waseelak Hindu School, also at the Community Centre.
01:59Despite the challenges, tutor says all teachers will be reporting to schools on Monday.
02:05Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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