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Teachers Didn't Show Up For Bike Rally
posted (January 16, 2014)
Belize District Teachers are having their pay-raise rally starting at 7:30 tomorrow morning, and today they planned a warm up event, in the form of a bike rally. It was advertised on facebook, but it didn't draw the expected crowd. We asked one of the five bikers who gathered what went wrong:..

Joel wade, teacher
"We are trying to bring awareness to the general public. We want them to be conscious of the fact that we will be having a rally tomorrow."

Daniel Ortiz
"We understand that the teachers were supposed to assemble on Cemetery Road in mass to try to make the effort as visible and vibrant and effective as possible. What happened?"

Joel wade, teacher
"It was supposed to be a bike ride and like for me I had to go and borrow a bicycle to be in this. I know we have some teachers who I guess can't ride and I guess at some point there had to be a miscommunication, but like we are out here and we are not looking behind to see who is not with us but we are just pressing forward and just basically doing what we were supposed to do; bring awareness and distribute some flyers."

"Not because its only 3 of us on this route means that we don't have the support."

Daniel Ortiz
"Sir, I must ask you, it has been a constant criticism from the ministry that the teachers are only willing to mobilize on work time but when they are off on their own time they don't believe in the movement enough to want to participate outside of class time."

Joel wade, teacher
"You see after 4 we have a number of teachers who would leave the city; they would leave the city at 4, so it's difficult to get teachers after class time. I guess I would say that's a fair enough assumption of them."

We'll have full coverage of the rally tomorrow night.

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