CABINET NOTES:
Cabinet has decided to delay the reopening of Primary Schools for another two weeks.
Secondary Schools with 100 per cent vaccinated students and 100 per cent vaccinated teachers, staff and ancillary staff may continue to function.
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What a disappointing decision, depriving our youth once again from basic fundamental rights to meet, play, learn and evolve with classmates and friends. How much longer, children around the world have returned face to face classes at the beginning of this term and it is time we do the same.
Yes, children have returned to classes in other places. Those places have MUCH higher vaccination rates than Antigua. They’ve also had a ton of Covid transmission in the schools as a result. At a time when our Covid numbers and deaths are already high on island, we cannot afford to increase the spread right now.
Approvals for primary age vaccinations are imminent. I have three at home right now all in primary, and am happy to wait until they can be vaccinated and it is safe to return to in-person learning. We have to look at the bigger picture, which is saving lives.
Why should teachers and students who are vaccinated, have to be deprived of face to face school, because others refuse to follow the government’s mandate? It is unfair. It is already very expensive on poor people to play for internet and data. Children are left home unsupervised,because parents have to work. Children are home but can’t access the classroom. AHWE NEED HELP.
For secondary, my guess would be a lack of teachers to continue teaching the virtual format to unvaccinated students while the vaccinated ones return to in-person instruction. I think that’s why they’ve made it more of an all or nothing kind of criteria.
Primary level students cannot yet get the vaccine, so it makes sense to me that they will remain closed. I will be first in line with my kids when Pfizer has its approvals for 5+.
Man oh man, these poor kids are in trouble. As if our education system wasn’t bad enough already, now these kids years behind. Plus, we gonna put untrained substitutes into the classroom? You not smart enough to teach your own kids to read at home, but with two weeks training you ready to be a sub teacher. Disaster ahead for this generation. No be able to compete in a world full of first world pupils and graduates. We never get ahead!
Oh please stop with the gloom and doom. Say something positive at this time.
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