Government schools stay closed for extra day
(CNS): Despite the all-clear being issued at 3pm Monday as Hurricane Ian moved away from the Cayman Islands, the Ministry of Education announced that government schools will remain closed to students until Wednesday, 28 September. While teachers were asked to report to work at 9:30am on Tuesday, the delayed opening to students is to allow checks and preparation, officials stated.
“The delayed reopening will facilitate cleaning and preparation activities for meals and classrooms, and allow the Department of Education Services (DES) Facilities Unit to conduct comprehensive site checks in all government schools to ensure no safety hazards exist for staff or students,” officials stated.
Private schools were expected to advise parents directly regarding their reopening arrangements.
Category: Education, Local News
Get a grip, all you idiots moaning.
There’s a lot to check. A lot to unpack, IT systems to restore.
The people complaining are probably the ones on the road yesterday morning, getting on with their lives and potentially clogging up roads for utility workers and emergency responders.
Cuba has no power, yet here we are, complaining about a day of school. St. Ig was the exception, not the rule.
Getting on with our lives yes – clogging up the roads and preventing all those emergency responders utility workers dealing with the catastrophic damage imposed by a tropical storm? Which island are you on?
kids can help to unpack and clean up the school easily and get it done fast. They need to learn to respect adults and get experience of helping people. Nowadays many kids don’t respect or help adults.
Just like they helped pack up the classrooms on Friday.
When i was going to school in the 1960’s we kids had to clean the schools,that caused us no problems and
made us better adult people.
Completely unnecessary.
They could have gone online for their studies if they thought travel was too dangerous today.
Its only Tuesday, maybe they should stay closed for the rest of the week… it might rain tomorrow.
It’s not like the kids are getting any smarter with the education standards these days.
Sounds like a lot of parents are missing their Government appointed babysitters today..
Maybe they should have offered to go in last night and help get the schools that were hurricane shelters back in shape for this morning as none of them were working yesterday..
Cayman has the most privileged people that I have ever known.
It’s hardly surprising that the standard of education is so bad here. Honestly, any excuse! “We have a wet leaf in the carpark, CLOSE ALL SCHOOLS!”
Not all schools – just the government run ones.
Nope, all schools. If the government ones close, then so do the privates
Nope – St Ignatius was open today
Nope – St. Ignatius was open today, lessons as usual.
no they don’t! There were a few private schools open today, and some also did online learning.
Guess the Post Office will be closed through the end of October
I have to say, I just went to the SMB Post Office and although they were ‘officially’ closed, the staff still dealt with my item. Hats off and many thanks.
I don’t often have reason to praise Cayman officialdom, but when I do, I do.
Will anyone notice?
While I do agree parents of these kids are put in a predicament of finding last minute child care for the day – what do we truly expect if the public schools are being used as hurricane shelters?
Do you honestly think it’s a smart/safe idea to have the kids in school while they are dismantling everything that was put into place to convert them into shelters? Come on man. It was a TS issue, let’s be kind.
And employers – don’t forget everything that COVID lock downs taught us! Would working from home one extra day actually kill anyone or stop the influx of your almighty dollars. No, so again – BE KIND TO YOUR STAFF TOO.
How is it unsafe for them to go back to class when the gym has been prepared as a hurricane shelter?
Because maybe it’s not just the gym that was prepared as a shelter…
don’t ask such simple questions.
you know they use the gym space for…classes?
PE classes yes. Sure those could be delayed for a day without shutting down the rest of the school.
using meal prep as an excuse tells you everything you need to know about cayman.
laziness, gluttony, obesity….cornerstones of every caymanian family.
Sounds like you need to vacate the premises entirely my friend, or maybe get some help to rid yourself of all of that toxic hate and envy for our Caymanian people.
Pacthetic
Any excuse to not have student butts in chairs. The storm didn’t effect my kid’s private school in any way yet I still have to pay for the days education, take an additional day off work to be with them. What will ever happen if a real catastrophe hits this islands? We will all go broke as intended by the powers that be.
Send them to St. Ignatius – they are open today!
They are better off at home thanks.
why?
Is it because they are being inspected next week and management want to look good?
This inspections are BS
I wonder if the government fully understands and takes into consideration the impact of closing the schools for an extra day. What is the impact on parents who have minor children but are required to return to work? With no time to make alternative child care arrangements what would the government have parents do?
No, they don’t.
@ 12:02 am
Are you STUPID!?
We were under a Hurricane Warning and we experienced tropical force winds and waves.
There has been power outages and property damage as well. So, not entirely unscathed.
Should parents have not been thinking of the possibility that schools maybe closed today (the day after)?
@ 9:50
Are you STUPID!?
The rest of the island can resume daily life, why can’t government school kids? What are they going to do when they become adults and getting out of bed in the morning will be too much of a challenge to handle?
@ 3:07 pm
Are you STUPID!?
Did you not read that the schools had to be inspected, cleaned and prepared?
Because they need a whole day to work out if it’s a safe environment after the passage of a tropical storm. Right. Strangely enough never been an issue before , but god forbid we should require the Education department to actually do thei job of training our kids notwithstanding that everyone else is back at work. Just give everyone involved another day paid holiday when they can’t even hit their education targets with the current number of school days.
I’m shocked. NOT.
The farce continues.
Education has not been a priority here since Roy and Truman ruined it.