2 DAYS OF SCHOOL

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Some toddlers attending the Buccoo Early Childhood Care and Education Centre are only able to attend classes two days per week. This has been happening since the beginning of the new academic year due to the absence of a teacher. Today, parents fed-up of the situation contacted TV6'S Elizabeth Williams who brings us this report.

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00:00What is happening right now at that preschool is there is a need of another

00:04teacher, right, and because of this we are not able to send our children to

00:10school every day. They have a shift system from the management where

00:15parents have to find out like how it is they're getting their children to school, who's

00:20taking care of them and some of them even relate to paying back the care fees.

00:24Miss Alfred said some parents have now resorted to carrying their children to

00:29work but not all parents can do this. Some have to carry them to work like me.

00:35I just have to carry my son to work sometime with me and that is a no-no

00:39because I'm working and where I'm working it's not sanitary for a child to be there.

00:43Other parents are missing days at work in order to stay at home with their

00:48children and are wondering how soon their concerns would be addressed.

00:53Melissa Melville, the mother of a three-year-old girl, and Akisha Maxime,

00:58mother of twin boys attending the school, spoke with TV6 News.

01:03Where I work, I can't carry her and sometimes it's a struggle to get

01:08somebody to keep her and if I don't get nobody I have to stay home. I think the

01:15children need to be in school every day, not I think, but they need to be in

01:18school every day and the two days a week really don't make any sense. So I call

01:24on education to please try and do something about the situation because

01:28the children need to be in school. I have other kids and they were in

01:32Roxborough so nobody can stay home to assist by watching them for me to go to

01:37work and come back that they got to go to work for seven o'clock so it's a bit

01:41a bit hard. This is the time for them to get in a lot because they are now

01:49coming to school age three years. When asked to comment on the matter, Education

01:54Secretary Zerisha Hackett said the issues facing the Buku Early Childhood

01:58Care and Education Centre would be investigated. Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

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