Glimmer of hope

A tenuous hope sparked at the weekend, following a decisive intervention by the Ministry of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, into the protracted five-year dispute that has shaken the Merl Grove High School community.

The ministry’s Regional Educational Services, last Friday, mobilised an estimated 100 Merl Grove stakeholders and interested parties to the dispute which has pitted the school board, led by Chairman David Hall, against the principal of the institution, Dr Marjorie Fullerton.

Ahead of the meeting held under the theme ‘Restore, Rebuild, Renew’, the ministry advised the school to request parents to have their children study at home for the day, apparently to spare them any potential tension that could ensue.