Schools Not Ready for Face-To-Face Learning

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – At least one dozen schools will not be ready for students to return to the classroom for face-to-face learning until early next year, according to Education Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin.

Jasmin Brown reports.

Unfinished school repairs will keep some government schools from welcoming students back to school campuses.

Minister of Education and Technical and Vocational Training Glenys Hanna martin revealed that fact, addressing the issue of in-class learning at public schools.

While no date has been identified for the resumption of face-to-face instruction, Hanna-Martin says her ministry is actively preparing for it and she hopes to be in a position to announce a date soon.

Among the schools that cannot reopen until next year are: Gerald Cash, Yellow Elder, CW Sawyer, Ridgeland Primary, Sybil Strachan, Uriah McPhee, and Georgetown Primaries. Also on the lists are LW Young and SC McPherson Jr Highs, LN Coakley High, and the Centre for the Deaf.

The education minister says the state of these schools will ultimately hamper the ministry’s efforts to get education back on track.

This as she notes thousands of students at all grade levels have dropped out of school in the last two years.

She says while the problem was inherited from the former administration, the government is working to accelerate repairs to minimize further disruption.