‘Teachers should not close schools’

A PARENTS’ leader has said unions representing teachers should remain in talks instead of closing down schools in the proposed public service strike next month.

The country’s 4,000 schools could be shut on Tuesday, November 24, if the three unions representing primary and second-level teachers back industrial action in ballots over the next few weeks.

Jim Moore, president of the National Parents Council-Post Primary (NPC-PP), said parents acknowledge the right of workers to take action, but they would be concerned about schools being closed for a day.