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KINGSTON, Jamaica — When his grade-six teacher, Pansy Genus, needed to step out of the classroom at Dupont Primary School, she knew exactly who she could trust to keep things in order—Dr Rev Austin Wright.
“Students do this, students do that,” Wright recalled, sharing how he would stand before his classmates, write on the chalkboard and take charge until his teacher returned.
What may have seemed like a simple classroom responsibility to his teacher was inspiration for the little boy from Trench Town, in Kingston.
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