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Students Support Teachers In OW
posted (October 4, 2016)
While the teachers are striking for what they think is right, they've gotten many pledges of support - including quite a few form kids who are happy for the break form school. But others are full of passionate intensity for their teachers' cause - and so it is at Muffles Junior College in Orange Walk where yesterday about 50 students took to the streets to show their support for their teachers, and to protest against corruption. Here's how they put it:...

Muffles Junior College Student
"Yeah we're protesting for the teacher, and hoping that the government reaches a compromise decision that could affect us and the teachers as well. So the more teachers fight for, the more us students will want to fight for, because at the end of the day we also get affected too."

Muffles Junior College Student
"Why this protest is very important for us students now to stand along with our teachers. Our teachers of Belize. It is a national issue, we are standing up for us the students. Not only the students but the country. So it is now time for us the students, in support of the teachers against corruption, corruption in a whole, government corruption, no violence, all these murders going on. So it is time for us the student to now show our support to the teachers and our country Belize."

Muffles Junior College Student
"I am protesting right, to support the teachers right, cause the government are doing things that they are not supposed to do. And they aren't paying the teachers, and teachers need it because we need an education too right. We have to go to school, to get our future, but if the teachers are not getting their pay and don't want to go to school, it's us who will get it."

Today they marched again and were joined by other youth leaders.

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