Stu­dents of Preysal Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School were kept home for the sec­ond day to­day due to a sew­er prob­lem.

Frus­trat­ed par­ents gath­ered at the Preysal Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on Wednes­day morn­ing, where the chil­dren have been at­tend­ing class­es since 2014 while the new school was be­ing built.

Par­ent Can­dice Bali­ram­s­ingh said, "We have no idea when school will be re­opened be­cause yes­ter­day some of the par­ents came, dropped their chil­dren to school and had to come back for them. This morn­ing was the same thing. And when we called, we were told that there is a sew­er is­sue and there is no school."

She added, "This is a hor­ri­ble and un­ac­cept­able sit­u­a­tion be­cause chil­dren are cramped up and clus­tered in a Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre and they ac­cus­tom to out­side, the play area. All of these things they don't have."

She said the chil­dren had to be re­lo­cat­ed to the Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre be­cause the school build­ing was di­lap­i­dat­ed. How­ev­er, she said not long af­ter con­struc­tion start­ed on the new school build­ing, it stopped and now it is over­grown with bush­es and over­run by ro­dents.

Call­ing on Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Nyan Gads­by Dol­ly to en­sure that con­struc­tion restarts, she said, "We need a prop­er school for our chil­dren please be­cause they are be­ing re­prieved of their ed­u­ca­tion." The par­ents will be meet­ing with Pro­gres­sive Em­pow­er­ment Par­ty po­lit­i­cal leader Phillip Alexan­der who has promised to help them.