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Founded by Baptist minister William M. Webb in January 1882 with just six students, the school has had quite a colourful history. In fact, it was founded out of the colour prejudices at that time, when there was strong objection to dark girls being educated at the same school as those of fairer skin. So intense was racial antipathy that a school operated by Mrs Knibb in Falmouth was broken up a few years earlier, after the daughters of two local black ministers were admitted. When she refused to dismiss the black girls, the other girls were withdrawn, breaking up a well-established school.
"This history has followed us," Karen P. Francis, Westwood's principal, told The Gleaner, pointing out that the school still prides itself in providing a quality education to all girls, regardless of class, colour or creed, the majority of whom are poor black girls.
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"This history has followed us," Karen P. Francis, Westwood's principal, told The Gleaner, pointing out that the school still prides itself in providing a quality education to all girls, regardless of class, colour or creed, the majority of whom are poor black girls.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead3.html
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015
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