IN JAMAICA: NO SCHOOL IN 2 MONTHS... Wheelchair-bound Hanover student, Britannia Stephenson suffers because there is no ramp at institution

BY MARK CUMMINGS Editor-at-Large Western Bureau cummingsm@jamaica.com  Sunday, October 29, 2017

NEW MILNS, Hanover — The absence of a wheelchair ramp at Hopewell High School in Hanover has prevented 13-year-old Britannia Stephenson, who has been diagnosed with encephalopathy, from starting classes in September at the school where she was placed following her sitting of this year's Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT).

Britannia Stephenson relaxes at her New Milns, Hanover,
 home in her wheelchair. (Photo: Philp Lemonte) 

A seemingly frustrated Cecilia Hill, the mother of young Britannia — who has not walked since birth — said that her daughter, who graduated from Watford Hill Primary School in Woodlands, Hanover, in June, is still at home in the New Milns community, nearly two months into the academic year, waiting anxiously to start school.

“She is at home getting mad and frustrated. She is stressed out and getting angry because she wants to go to school. She would feel more relaxed and comfortable at school than sitting at home all day,” Hill told the Jamaica Observer. more