WILLEMSTAD.- Safety is a concern for many years for the School Directives. For example, many schools have different chemicals, like all kinds of liquids, that have expiration dates. But nobody realizes it. As director of the Schools Directives a few years ago, we have been looking for information with the Firemen and VKC has also been asked to help us. But until now we have to wait additionally for the Government. Since there are many situations in schools that are not safe.
As every school must have good fence and walls. But there are too many schools that do not have this, “said the Director of the Catholic Schools Directives Lissette Van Lamoen-Garmers yesterday during a press conference with different directives from other schools, according to Van Lamoen-Garmers, many schools confront problems with the payment of water and electricity and as a consequence of this, they choose not to spend money to maintain security. “You must have water and electricity in the schools. This is important. But security is extremely important too. That’s why we put attention and emphasis on safety as one of the priorities of our teaching.
Maghalie van der Bunt-George, director of the Protestant Schools Directives says: “We ask that everything that is deplorable should be sought to be arranged in an acceptable manner.”
According to the Directives there is an important need to create a security plan for schools with special attention for physical security and social security, as well as for maintenance and hygiene. Van der Bunt-George: “As a director, every month we emphasize that the subsidy we get is not enough to cover the basic expenses of our teaching, such as the Aqualectra account, the Aqualectra account is much higher than the amount that we get as a subsidy from the Government. Money that you want to use for other methods, you are forced to use to pay the expenses of Aqualectra.
