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Principals at some of the 17 schools scheduled to be reopened as part of a two-week face-to-face pilot are fuming, as they say they had not been consulted by the Ministry of Education which announced the list on the weekend.Yallahs High School Principal Mark Malabver said he and colleagues are 'flying in the dark' and accused the ministry of being 'untidy' in how it went about the matter.

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