This group expressed its concern because students in the middle of the academic year are forced to stay at home to avoid being victims of aggressions or stray bullets.

The association hopes that the necessary measures will be taken to facilitate the resumption of classes while criticizing the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training which has still not modified the calendar.

The leaders of this structure also call for a common front of all educational actors to allow the effective resumption of the course.

The Haitian Parents’ Association reminded that the number of school days must be at least 200, to make it worthwhile and help children to save their school year.

In this context, Haiti’s Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training condemned the looting and burning of schools and universities by the gangs that control 80 percent of Port-au-Prince.

“Attacking and burning schools and universities, destroying archives, destroying school and university material, is destroying the main members of a society,” a statement issued by the aforementioned Ministry stressed.

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