{"id":245862,"date":"2004-09-21T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/09\/teachers-walk-out-bahamas-schools-over-crowded"},"modified":"2004-09-21T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:05:00","slug":"teachers-walk-out-bahamas-schools-over-crowded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2004\/09\/teachers-walk-out-bahamas-schools-over-crowded","title":{"rendered":"Teachers Walk Out &#8211; Bahamas Schools Over Crowded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teacher shortage in the country&#8217;s public shcool system came to a head yesterday when frustrated teachers of the Dame Doris Johnson High School walked out of their classrooms.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nEducation officials said complaints of shortages in the school&#8217;s maths, science home economics and technical drawing departments were not unique as the problem exists nationwide.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nA number of schools across the country share Dame Doris&#8217; complaints of over-crowded classrooms.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nSome classes have between 35-40 pupils.<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nPermanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Creswell Sturrup, said that the sit-out was premature as the Ministry was working as hard as it could to redeploy teachers in the various schools.<br \/>\n<P><B>Source: Rupert Missick, The Tribune<\/B><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education officials said complaints of shortages in the school&#8217;s maths, science home economics and technical drawing departments were not unique as the problem exists nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}