Students attending the Gudja primary school will be relocated because their classrooms are needed to be used by a Labour MP as an office, the Malta Union of Teachers said.

The MUT did not name the MP, but sources said that it is Silvio Parnis.

After the story was first published on The Malta Independent online this morning, Mr Parnis calles our offices to say that the first thing he said when he visited the school was that he did not want to disrupt the children. 

"I am chairman of the consultative committee for the south for four years, the children have their whole future there, the last thing I want to do is disrupt them," Mr Parnis said.

The MUT has written to the Education Minister to express its dismay that this is happening right in the middle of a scholastic year.

A group of teachers and LSAs has informed the union that they were informed by the head of school that two classrooms need to be vacated to make room for an office to be used by an MP.

Since the school is currently being utilised to the full, this move shall be creating a lot of logistical and safety problems during the scholastic year, the MUT said.

The MUT stated that it is not in agreement with the move specified especially as it is being done during the scholastic year. What is worse is that the reason for the move is not linked to educational needs but because the space is needed by an MP.

Until such time as this is clarified and an agreement reached, the Union is directing its members not to move anything within the school and stay in their classes, the MUT said.