What About the Time Off for Teachers to Collect Salaries?

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Channel: Greater Belize Media | GBM · 2018 · News & Politics

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The Council also looked at the issue of day offs, half day or a full day, granted to teachers only at the end of the month to collect salaries at the banks. Back in November 2010, it was agreed that eligible schools with proper justification would be allowed to take the last Friday off in every month; that did not include urban schools. But the ministry says that there are some schools where every Friday is half day. That is considered a disservice to the students who are to be guaranteed one hundred and eighty days of contact time at school.

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