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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