RASTAFARIANS ARE NOT being targeted by the Ministry of Education.
The suggestion has been described as “nonsense” by Minister of Education Ronald Jones as the parents of two Rastafarian children rally support following their conviction for not sending their children to school, while the Child Care Board is pushing to take custody of the children.
Speaking on the sidelines of a service to launch Education Month yesterday at the Hopeland Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Mile-and-A-Quarter, St Peter, Jones rubbished the claims, stressing that the convicted parents were not the first Rastafarians on the island to home-school their children.
The couple was found guilty of breaching Section 41 Clause (b) of the Education Act, Chapter 41 on the grounds that there was no record the children – a boy and a girl – had ever attended formal classes. (SDB Media)
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