IN JAMAICA: GSAT Results Bring Despair And Jubilation

A mother desperately tries to console her daughter after receiving her Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) results.
The little girl's eyes are red from crying and her sobbing becomes louder as other classmates at St Richard's Primary School jump in jubilation, clearly overjoyed with their results.
The mother becomes angry, clutches her daughter to her bosom and starts shouting that the results are unfair because her daughter had scored excellent grades but was not placed in a school of her choice.
It seems this little girl is not one of the 28,562 of the 42,268 GSATstudents who Education Minister Ronald Thwaites said were placed in their preferred schools.
The mother-and-daughter pair was just one of the many families converging on the St Richard's Primary School playing field yesterday, reacting to the 2013 GSAT results. READ More....

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