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Education stakeholders have rejected the Education Minister’s disclosure that police officers armed with guns will be stationed at some high-risk schools from Monday.

The National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) and the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA) said yesterday they will not support such measures in schools.

TTUTA president Martin Lum Kin expressed support for the initiative to place police officers in schools, saying it was based on the premise that those institutions with high levels of indiscipline and violence will return to a sense of normalcy.