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By Kimone Witter
Radio Jamaica News has been informed that face to face classes have resumed at the St Elizabeth based primary school where an illegal firearm was seized from a seven year old last month.
Students returned to the classrooms last week Monday with three temporary teachers as well as an education officer in the role of acting principal.
Since the September 12 incident, teachers employed to the institution have stayed away, including one who resigned, after threats were issued.
Radio Jamaica News was told that the temporary staff will be in place to allow for the previous teachers to decide whether to return to the school.
The primary school, located in a deep rural section of the parish, is said to have a student population of 40.
On Monday, when physical classes resumed, only 28 students turned up.
Efforts to get a comment from the Ministry of Education Region 5 office on the future of the school have so far been unsuccessful.
The seven-year-old was taken into state care as the investigations continue.
The police in St. Elizabeth have declined to speak further on the matter.
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