Several leading educators have been touting the need for more schools to incorporate technology in the delivery of lessons.
However, many of these technological learning aids require the use of electricity, an energy source that some schools, such as the York Town Basic School in Clarendon, have been doing without for years.
Principal of the York Town Basic School, Paulette Dixon-Reece, said since the school was founded in 1940, it has been without power.
Established by the York Town Brethren Church, the school was relocated to its current location in 1990, and partially equipped with the requisite wiring, but has never been connected to the grid.
"We are not able to get computers here, and sometimes we want to use audiovisual aids - like DVDs and so on - to make the lessons more interesting, and we can't do it because there's no electricity," Dixon-Reece lamented. read more...
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