Twenty-Seven Percent Of Teachers Attend Classes Today Amid TTUTA’s Call For Rest And Reflection

Twenty-seven percent of teachers attended classes today at primary schools.

This represents one thousand, three hundred and ninety-two teachers.

Seventeen percent of students or sixteen thousand, eight-hundred and nineteen pupils came out to classes.

Confirmation of this comes from the Division of School Supervision.

The teachers union had called on its members to rest and reflect today.

The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association claimed this is necessary to show the dissatisfaction with the four percent being offered by the Chief Personnel Officer during negotiations taking place.

At denominational Primary Schools, the teacher and student attendance was 28% and 20% respectively, while the corresponding attendance at government schools was 24% and 12% respectively.

At Secondary Schools, there was attendance of twenty-eight thousand, seven hundred and thirty-eight or 39% students, and one thousand eight-hundred and fifty-one, or 31% teachers.

At denominational Secondary Schools, the teacher and student attendance was 47% and 68% respectively, while the corresponding attendance at government schools was 25% and 26% respectively.