-poor conditions at Bagotville, Golden Grove Primary
Parents shut down two schools on the West Demerara and East Coast Demerara yesterday to protest poor conditions and lack of teachers.
Classes were disrupted at the Bagotville Primary School on the West Bank Demerara and at the Golden Grove Primary School on the East Coast Demerara as students joined in the protest.
“This is a terrible situation…we in this for years now”, Pansy Shepherd said as other parents related that two teachers and the headmistress teach 107 students at the Bagotville Primary School but many times the teachers are away