Lee An­na Ma­haraj

"A whole day wast­ed."

This was how one moth­er de­scribed the sit­u­a­tion this morn­ing as she took her son back home af­ter re­al­is­ing that teach­ers were a no-show at the Rich­mond Street Boys' An­gli­can School on the first day back out.

She was one of many par­ents who re­sort­ed to tak­ing their chil­dren back home due to the lack of su­per­vi­sion.

Al­though the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) called for teach­ers to “rest and re­flect” to­day, one par­ent said she was not giv­en of­fi­cial no­tice from the school.

“I know they want their mon­ey, I know they worked for their mon­ey but, it’s at the chil­dren’s ex­pense,” Chris­sy, the moth­er of a stan­dard three stu­dent com­ment­ed.

When Guardian Me­dia Ltd vis­it­ed the near­by Sa­cred Heart Boys’ Ro­man Catholic School we were told that on­ly three teach­ers had showed up to school.