WATCH: Protesting Merl Grove teachers mum on grievances
KINGSTON, Jamaica — A group of teachers are now protesting at Merl Grove High School but so far have kept quiet about what prompted the action.
Jamaica Observer reporters saw multiple teachers standing silently at the school gate, holding signs with slogans including “lack of integrity and transparency”, “end the dictatorship” and “respect our voice”.
One teacher held a blue sign that read “I was evicted from my classroom out of spite; now our children pay the price”; another sign read “Staff morale is extremely low”.
“Protect our children don’t weaponise them…HELP,” said the placard another teacher held
It comes amid longstanding tensions between the board of the institution and the school’s principal, who had been dismissed amid a dispute over her leadership style before being reinstated after a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year.
