Senior teachers were locked out of the Berbice Educational Institute yesterday when they visited to sort incoming Grade 10 students into their respective streams.
The lockout was as a result of the Ministry of Education policy restricting access to teachers who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they can show proof of a negative PCR test result.
As a result, a group of teachers subsequently held a peaceful protest outside of the school. One teacher explained, “The senior staff came this morning to conduct an important exercise—streaming of the Grade 9 students, who will be in Grade 10 and when we came this morning we were locked out of the compound.”