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Homeschooling In the Cayman Islands
Parents on island are opting for a home-school approach — this year, more than 130 students were enrolled.
As Philipp Richter tells us, parents who have their students in a home-school setting have found a happy medium that works for their kids.
Parents opting for home-schooling seem to have found the formula that works for their children outside the traditional school setting.
Parent Deon Dowers Le-Blanc says that as much as school worked for her, home-schooling was a better fit.
Last week, the Cayman home-school community gathered at First Baptist Church for their annual moving-up ceremony to mark students’ transition across grades.
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Media urged to consider its role in de-stigmatising mental health
Rhonda Kelly, mother of Addison Kelly who died by suicide at age 16 in 2022, still vividly recalls the experience of reading headlines about her daughter, and the wave of social media commentary on her mental health that followed in the days after her passing.
“I can still go back and look at a post … All the comments that were made…,” she said. “Unless it’s changed since the last time I looked at it, there are 150 comments of varying degrees. Some are sympathetic and nice – and some are very judgmental.”
Kelly, the marketing chair of the Alex Panton Foundation and founder of the Addison Kelly Mental Health Education Fund, brought a powerful personal perspective to the ‘Best Practices Workshop on Mental Health Media Coverage’, held on 27 May.
