57 responses to “More Action at a Secondary School”

1. 

   Well Well.

   November 11, 2013 at 10:49 am

   
   

   Lighthouse said;
   “We must make an example of him. Teachers are off limit. with that kind of violence.”

   _________________________________

   Unless that teacher is a pervert/pedophile molesting the island’s children..then another example is required.

   Loading…
2. 

   Gabriel

   November 11, 2013 at 10:59 am

   
   

   1.The Police can pull over any driver whose vehicle is not in compliance with the law;be it a light not fucntioning,or a light attached to a vehicle and gives of a ray of light which colour is incompatible with the law etc.Based on the questions asked and answered if the Police have a reason to be suspicious,permission to search a vehicle may be asked of the driver and where it is refused,notation is made and follow up action may result.The Police must have the technology in place to demand the license of the driver and call in to check its bona fides.Similarly for the Insurance of the vehicle.Any mis step is ground for further action.
   2.Co-Ed in my humble opinion is for Tertiary Level education.The importance of the Primary level education cannot be over emphasised.Primary schools should be receiving the bulk of the Education Vote.This is where the real socialising begins and is carried throughout one’s life.Since the majority of Bajans express themselves so terribly,there should be a period of indoctriniation of the children in junior reception to be taught to pronounce words correctly and stop this bad habit of assigning equal emphasis to every syllable found in every word.For example the CEMENT.We are in the bad habit of saying SEE’MENT.This should be SUH’MENT.Westbury should be pronounced WEST’BREE. BEFORE is BIH’FOE and not BEE’FORE etc.Until we learn to pronounce the English Language correctly,we will not have that Pride and Industry we are supposed to exhibit in our work and play.It’s such a pleasure to see and hear those students who do well in the Common Entrance and when interviewed on TV,speak with such confidence and clarity.
   The Primary level is where the emphasis should be.Co-Ed has no place in a well ordered society when its at Secondary level.It’s just wrong and unfair to the young males and was introduced to address an inbalance in the marking system.The number of places for girls was reduced so as to facilitate the number of boys entering the system but with less marks compared to girls.I recall one champion of the redressing was Harold Crichlow who has 2 girls!My beef however is that the Primary school is not given the pride of place it deserves in our Education System.Speaking of pronunciation,cast your mind to the likes of Ronald Jones teaching kindergarten age children to pronounce words.Lawd have its muhsih.

   Loading…
3. 

   Negroman

   November 11, 2013 at 12:42 pm

   
   

   We are always on the cases of our children when thay are allegedly engaged in actions deem inappropriate – having sex or beating teachers. But we do not want to accept that we the adults must take some responsibility for the actions of our children.
   In the school system, we have administrators, teachers and auxiliary staff using, abusing our children.
   Teachers taking out their anger and frustrations on innocent children. In many cases, using some of the most vile, insulting language in their condemnation of our children. In many of those cases teachers resort to physical abus.
   David of Bu and the other commenters on this blog who are constantly on the case of our children, while not expose the abuse our children encountered on daily bases from the po

   Loading…
4. 

   Negroman

   November 11, 2013 at 12:45 pm

   
   

   David of Bu
   The space I have to comment is not expanding as usual and as a result what I type is now being cut short.Can that problem be examined & rectified?

   Loading…
5. 

   David

   November 11, 2013 at 1:24 pm

   
   

   @Negroman

   When you start to type hit enter to increase comment box.

   Loading…
6. 

   Randolph

   November 11, 2013 at 6:47 pm

   
   

   Co-education is not kind to the majority of boys.

   Loading…
7. 

   Victor

   November 16, 2013 at 6:23 pm

   
   

   It is well-known that girls at all-girl schools do much better academically than they do at mixed schools. There is also evidence that boys at single schools do better than they do at mixed schools.
   To suggest that single-sex education prevents socialisation and an understanding of the opposite sex is absurd. A child’s social life is not all about school, most people have siblings or relatives or neighbours of the opposite sex round about their own age; their friends have brothers and sisters they can mix with outside school.
   At a co-ed school sex becomes a distracting issue. School is primarily a place for academic learning; socialisation can take place out of school. Or after school, check out Fairchild St or Speightstown bus station after school gets out!
   This is a small island, everyone knows each other anyway so what is wrong about keeping the sexes apart during school hours?
   I’m not saying co-ed schools are wrong per se but I think parents should be given a choice about whether they want their child to attend a co-ed school or not.
   The classroom should not be regarded as a place providing an opportunity to have sex or engage in sexual activity.
   Schoolteachers who sexually abuse children must be prosecuted.
   Some children have a hard enough time at home already, dealing with adults’ sexual behaviour with other adults and sometimes towards the children themselves.
   Let school become a place where for once they do not have to confront this on a daily basis, at an early, impressionable age. If you are a child from such a home, a teacher’s predatory behaviour could seem the norm. School should be a place where sex is NOT acceptable outside the curriculum teaching and textbooks.
   The Caribbean is already world-famous in literature, song and statistically, for incest and teen pregnancy, having one of the highest rates of child AIDS in the developed world. Can we please keep sexual activity out of the school room?

   Loading…