Back-to-school cheer and gloom


Filth and silt: The clean-up exercise at SMK Dabong in Kelantan required a tractor to lift the destroyed items and debris.

STUDENTS went back to school this week after the long year-end break with 438,869 starting Year One.

The start of the school year was different this year with those in several states ravaged by floods losing their new school unforms, books and even their homes in some instances. Their schools were also covered in mud and the cleaning-up exercise required many volunteers.

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