School Not Ready, Say Parents and Students

FROM CUBA
School Not Ready, Say Parents and Students

MATANZAS, Cuba, September 12 (Oscar Sánchez Madan / www.cubanet.org) -
Students of the Franklin Gómez secondary school and their parents
complain that the school, a live-in facility in Jagüey Grande, central
Cuba, is not ready to begin the school year.

They say that when around 300 students arrived September 2, they found
the facility run down, dirty, and lacking the necessities for lodging
the students. There were beds missing in several of the dorms, and in
others there were beds without matresses. As a result a number of
students slept on the floor, they said.

Also, they said numerous windows were broken.

Some of the parents also complained that they had witnessed students
smoking and drinking rum with members of the staff. Education
authorities said they had already addressed the matter.

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