Parents protest over crumbling Essequibo primary school

By Stabroek News On In Guyana News |
Overcrowded: While seating arrangements are normally two to a bench, students at the Philadelphia Primary School have to sit three or four to a bench. The bottom flat of their two-storey school has deteriorated to the point where it became impossible to house students there any longer. (See story on page 8) (Photo by Gaulbert Sutherland)
Overcrowded: While seating arrangements are normally two to a bench, students at the Philadelphia Primary School have to sit three or four to a bench. The bottom flat of their two-storey school has deteriorated to the point where it became impossible to house students there any longer. (See story on page 8) (Photo by Gaulbert Sutherland)

It is a tight fit for students at the Philadelphia Primary School. A crumbling foundation has forced the six classes housed in the bottom flat to relocate to the upper floor of the two-storey building.

Rather than have them crammed in tiny classrooms, separated only by blackboards,