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Pres­i­dent of the Na­tion­al Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion (NPTA), Wal­ter Stew­art, says the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry in­tends to rent the 300-plus chairs need­ed for stu­dents of South East Port-of-Spain Sec­ondary School (SE­POS), at least in the short term, as it is not the on­ly school in need of fur­ni­ture.

On Mon­day, stu­dents were placed on a ro­ta­tion sys­tem as there were not enough chairs to ac­com­mo­date ap­prox­i­mate­ly 700 of them. Forms One and Two stu­dents were told to at­tend school on Tues­days and Thurs­days, while Forms Three to Five will at­tend class­es on Mon­day, Wednes­day, and Fri­day.

Stew­art said this would be a short-term mea­sure, as fur­ni­ture was or­dered for this aca­d­e­m­ic year but not de­liv­ered on time.