Holiday

Yes, I was right in my prediction last night. The president did declare today a holiday and cancelled all classes in all schools, public and private. Now you know the priorities here. Today was supposed to be the last day of school for the kids in public school, but since classes were cancelled, the school year is now over for them.

Last week the government decided to just count the days the kids went this year as a full school year, not extend the year. They set Nov. 17 as the last day of classes. The teachers were angry and wanted to work until the elections the end of Nov. They then asked to work to the end of Oct. but again were rejected. The supposition is the government does not have money to pay them so they don't want them teaching anymore. The teachers decided they were going to have meetings on Friday so today was to be the last day of school, until Soccer intervened and the celebration took priority. I went to the meeting with the kids teacher on Tuesday and she gave out their grades from last month, said there would not be any more exams and the grades they already had were the final grades.