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No rest for the broke: Back to school woes in village

Students headed back to school [File/Standard]

April holidays must've been cooked up by sadistic education officials at Jogoo House-probably during a power blackout and on an empty stomach. Or a hangover. I mean, who in their right bureaucratic mind lets kids close school and reopen in the same month?

Do these folks even have kids of their own in school? Or are their offspring stashed in posh International Schools? Meanwhile, ours are home for exactly 12 days and seven hours before being herded back to school shingo upande.

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