Classes at several schools across the country have been disrupted for a third consecutive day.
This as teachers are taking protest action against the government’s latest wage offer.
Reports reaching our news centre indicate classes have been disrupted at Wolmer’s Girls and St. Andrew High School in St. Andrew, Hampton School, Brompton Primary in St. Elizabeth and Kensington Primary in St. Catherine.
It’s understood parents of students at Kensington Primary have been advised to pick up their children, who are at this hour unsupervised due to widespread absence of teachers at the institution.
The principal of Brompton Primary was reportedly the only member of staff who turned up for school this morning.
Additionally, teachers, dressed in black, are at this hour gathered outside the gates of St. Andrew High chanting for an improved salary offer.
The protests come as delegates of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association , JTA, will this morning gather at Mico University in St. Andrew to vote on the government’s latest offer.
Students across Jamaica are also preparing their School Based Assessments, SBAs and to sit the Primary Exit Profile, PEP, exams.
