Teachers rally to aid needy students


Doing the necessary: Teachers loading up food baskets to be delivered to the families of their students.

KOTA KINABALU: A probe into why many secondary school students in Sabah seldom or never attended online classes during the conditional movement control order (MCO) revealed a sad truth.

“We found out that it was because these students could not afford to buy data reloads to surf the Internet,” said a teacher who requested not to be named.

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