Cabinet Considers Extending School Day with After-School Programs to Address Student Loitering in St. John’s

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CABINET NOTES: The Cabinet held discussions about solving the challenge of loitering students in the streets of St. John’s, when schools end at 1:30pm. 

The Cabinet considered extending the end of the school day by introducing sports, agricultural programmes, and after-school classes for those requiring additional teacher exposure time.

The Cabinet recognizes that teachers, their bargaining representative, parents, administrative personnel and others are to be consulted before any change could take place.

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  2. Happy they are listening to me but this extension should mainly be fun for students and teachers. They can include some learning and after school help with homework. But make extracurricular activities about learning fields students want to learn, give them many options and allow them to pick. It will be the only way they will see it as not punishment but fun and exciting activities.

    They can play video games and learn to build games, they can learn sport plays (strategizing in basketball, soccer, cricket, netball), they can do farm (plants and animals), decoration, painting, learn American Law if they hope to go to the US to study law or other fields from the US (These would be available but students are not forced to do it), students coming together and forming actual businesses (they can have the option of instead of selling for money, only barter can be used).

    Teachers should truly be given a pay raise immediately, the government should invest in these ideas because it cost less than the crime, terror and harms society has been suffering because of the lack of these things.

    Also, funding could be had, with proper management of these funds. There are many people willing and able to invest substantially in a school. With guarantee funds will be used properly.

    Help our youths stay on the right pay and pay teachers for their hard work and dedication.

  3. I understand and all and what happened to parents that depend on the kids to pick up the young ones are the government also making plans for that

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