AFTER A MUCH-ANTICIPATED MEETING with Minister of Education Ronald Jones yesterday, it is still not publicly known when the Springer Memorial Secondary School student at the centre of a disciplinary dispute will be allowed back in the classroom.
Exactly eight weeks after the child was barred from attending classes after she refused a request from her year head to pick up a piece of a snack wrapper, her mother, Elecia Weekes, child rights advocate Shelly Ross and attorney at law Steve Straughan met with Jones for close to two hours at his office on Constitution Road, St Michael.
Even though acknowledging that a transfer would perhaps be in the child’s best interest, Weekes has rejected ministry-initiated transfers to Daryll Jordan and Ellerslie schools.
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