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Textbook crisis - Non-deliveries bound to hamper teaching - Principals
published: Wednesday | September 3, 2008


Molloy said principals are angry about the delay. - file

The island's two principals associations on Monday said they were disappointed that some public schools were yet to receive textbooks.

The Ministry of Education spent $1.2 billion on textbooks this year.

"We have not had any textbooks and we are very upset about it," Nadine Molloy, president of the Jamaica Association of Principals of Secondary Schools, told The Gleaner on Monday.

Molloy said the absence of books will severely affect the learning process.

Short of books

Meanwhile, Michael Stewart, president of the Association of Principals and Vice-principals of Upgraded High Schools, told The Gleaner Monday that many schools are short of books. He noted that his school, Porus High, sent a list to the Ministry of Education in March but the institution is yet to get any books.

"The books that we have are tattered and, the fact that we have a shortage, this will affect our programme," Stewart said.

Jasper Lawrence, chief education officer in the Ministry of Education, said textbook deliveries began two weeks ago and will continue. He noted that schools in accessible areas would receive their books soon.

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