School sends students home as 14 classes lack teachers
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Education officials in Marvila have begun sending primary students home after the local council identified 14 classes without a teacher. While some children are being distributed across different grades, others have simply been told to stay away, a blunt solution to a staffing shortage that the school suggests may eventually be solved by hiring technicians to fill the gaps.
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