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$100K mobile phones but no textbooks

jamaica-gleaner.com · 14h · first reportShare

WESTERN BUREAU: A senior school administrator is challenging parents to rethink their priorities as the new school year gets under way, noting that some are spending heavily on their children’s fashion and gadgets while failing to provide basic learning materials. In a post on social media site Facebook, Linvern Wright, principal of the Trelawny-based William Knibb Memorial High School, highlighted what he sees as a troubling contradiction.