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Pauline Benjamin - Principal, Springer Memorial Secondary School
Pauline Benjamin – Principal, Springer Memorial Secondary School

BU will not write too much about this except to beg for urgent divine intervention. As adults we are morally and legally bound to be caretakers of our children. What has transpired so far at Springer Memorial School involving a minor and a student is an indictment on all of us. All of us.

The emotional scaring that continues to accrue to this child begs for an immediate intervention from someone, any bloody one. Are we a society? Are we focussed only on the economy? What say you Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart? You boasted how you had to intervene to resolve the Alexandra issue. Do something! Rescue your minister Ronald Jones, AGAIN.  We await the management style you will select to resolve this issue. You are the prime minister you know.

Police respond to incident involving Springer student

Added 08 February 2016

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Elecia Weekes (centre) embracing her daughter outside the school gates. At left is Shelly Ross. (Picture by Xtra Vision Photography.)

POLICE WERE CALLED in at the Springer Memorial Secondary School this morning when the saga surrounding the 14-year-old schoolgirl took another turn.

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The child and her mother, Elecia Weekes, have been involved in a disciplinary row with the principal, which has resulted in her being out of the classroom for almost eight weeks.

Weekes called the police after she said her daughter was escorted to the gates by principal Pauline Bellamy and asked to take off her uniform. She has refused a transfer to Ellerslie Secondary and was told by Bellamy last week that the child is no longer on the roll at Springer and would be trespassing if she returned.

Police from District “A” responded and advised the family, which is being supported by children’s rights advocate Shelly Ross, to take the matter to the Ministry of Education. They are now awaiting word on when they will be able to meet with chief education officer Karen Best. (YB)

– See more at: http://www.nationnews.com/nationnews/news/77607/police-respond-incident-involving-springer-student#sthash.L1FwfmNO.dpuf

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547 responses to “Springer Memorial School Wrapper Update: The Education System Enters Its Darkest Hour”

  1. Angry bajan parent Avatar
    Angry bajan parent

    I challenge that teacher or any teacher to tell a white or Muslim child who is sitting in a class room to pick up garbage that is outside the class room on the ground. Should the child say to the teacher his/ her parents did not send him to school to pick up garbage. Lets see how far it goes.

    This child is 15 years old is being prevented from going to school. However if the mother had taken her out of school voluntarily for that number of weeks the education officers would be behind her behind and she would be locked up.

    How stupid our grown ups look. Using this situation, blowing it out of proportion and preventing the child from having an education.

    Why not spend money on an inquiry like how we did with Mr Jeff Broomes.

    All I am saying is. Adolescence is a stage which children try to challenge adults. The school does not have a guidance counsellor. or It may be a case where the Head teacher and teacher ego is so bruised they would rather the child be barred from having an education.

    In my opinion if you want to punish the child give her lots and lots of home work. Research that would take up a significant amount of her time and she would be learning something valuable to take in to her adulthood and give the Nation newspaper something positive for once to put in the paper for the people to read

  2. David Avatar
    David

    If you speak to other principals in the system there is growing dissatisfaction to how the Springer Memorial principal has been allowed to deal with the matter. The MoE et al have been caught napping, again.

    http://www.loopnewsbarbados.com/content/litter-no-no-reynold-weekes-primary-school

  3. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea:

    Is the Principal of the Reynold Weekes Primary School, Anderson Bishop, a half-a-idiot of a total idiot?

    Now who is the more enlightened and forward thinking principal fit for the 21st Century teaching and learning environment where the teacher is seen and an exemplary facilitator and not a dictator?

    Just remember that children learn what they see; not just what is told to them by arrogant backward thinking misfits like you.

    Why not read the below extract and learn despite your fossilized brain frozen in a 1950’s time warp of education?

    Prinicipal of the Reynold Weekes Primary School, Anderson Bishop, said he implemented a beautification project aimed at enhancing the school’s image by keeping it litter-free.

    “When I walk the corridor and I see a wrapper, I take it up and put it in the bin to demonstrate to the children that this is what should be done. We have to teach the children to keep around them clean. It’s not about who put it there,” he said.

    Bishop said he wanted to provide an environment for students that was conducive to their learning.

    “We’re seeking to make the school a school of choice and provide educational excellence for our students. We believe that maintaining our environment and having a beautiful environment would contribute towards that effort,” he said.

    Adding that students were “on board with it”, he discussed a volunteer programme- ‘Team Up to Clean Up’ that was implemented by class 4 students.

    “They have undertaken the responsibility of cleaning the environment every week they wear their gloves and walk around the school and pick wrappers up.

    “Also we have a system where each [student] is an environmental officer, so they would report or ask anyone who drops a wrapper to pick it up. Each child has that authority,” he said.

    Bishop was speaking in an interview at the school this morning during a collaborative project with Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) Dodds. The collaborative project launched today, a first of many, featured “trusted prisoners” from HMP Dodds cleaning the courtyard and planting trees and flowers in the school’s garden.

  4. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @are-we-there-yet you are hitting the ball well today…there is some ‘cricket’ left in you yet, surely. smile…

    I particularly like your memo @ 10:25PM last night. That is exactly the type of training regiment or planning guide that David likely was referring to when he spoke of the need for teachers to be trained …The ‘ad nauseum’ of these wasteful exercises…which all seem to morph into the one before and the one before….

    But your remark : “… more than one secondary school, I think, has this rule codified on its books….A breach of common sense is a breach of the school rules (or words to that effect” is profound.

    You realize of course that other than respect there is absolutely no ‘common sense’ displayed by many of the youth. Thus they are continually in breach.

    Managing kids today in school must be absolutely stress-filled for the average eduator

  5. Prodigal Son Avatar
    Prodigal Son

    Miller

    I am now hearing that the same thing happened at a top school recently. Well, the child’s mother is a principal and the father a lawyer. The mother went to the school and took the school authorities to task and that was the end of that. (I was told the mother blocked.)

    See what we have been saying that this could not happen to certain people’s children!

  6. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    Prodigal…these people who are supposed to be educators, some of them like to target those who they think cannot fight back. This woman and her 14 year old child jump them…if you are targetting littering, do it the right way, target those who do the littering. The island is now a laughing stock because nothing is being done the right way by those in charge.

  7. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Angry bajan parent February 14, 2016 at 10:06 AM “In my opinion if you want to punish the child give her lots and lots of home work.”

    Homework should NEVER be used as punishment.

    If we punish children by giving them homework what will we have taught them?

    That studying is a bad thing?

    is that really what we want to teach them?

  8. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Prodigal Son February 14, 2016 at 6:17 PM “I am now hearing that the same thing happened at a top school recently. Well, the child’s mother is a principal and the father a lawyer. The mother went to the school and took the school authorities to task and that was the end of that. (I was told the mother blocked.)”

    We will wait and see how this child turns out.

    There is more than one lawyer, and more than one school principal who have lived to regret supporting their children’s disobedience.

    Ak them.

  9. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Angry bajan parent February 14, 2016 at 10:06 AM #
    I challenge that teacher or any teacher to tell a white or Muslim child who is sitting in a class room to pick up garbage that is outside the class room on the ground.

    Don’t know about your school, but when i was at school all children, black and white (no Muslim children at that school at that time) were required to pick up our lunchtime litter everyday.

    And to use the rationale used by so many here…why should the maids have picked up our lunchtime litter… After all they did not put it there. The maids would have perfectly cleaned the school every evening. Teachers both black and white picked up litter too.

  10. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    We are behaving as though lawyers have some special gift in child raising.

    They do not.

    Wasn’t Winston Hall’s daddy a lawyer too?

    And look how Winston turned out.

  11. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    Have been reading Simple Simon’s contribution. Either she moved down a weight class or her training is paying off… she is punching well above here weight class… : -)

    BTW.. that is a compliment and notan attack

  12. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    here=her; notan=not an

  13. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon February 14, 2016 at 7:45 PM
    “We will wait and see how this child turns out.”

    The child will turn out no worse than the crop of wild boys, semi-literate liars, scumbags, gunslingers and crooks that you have representing you in parliament today.

  14. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @millertheanunnaki February 14, 2016 at 8:01 PM “The child will turn out no worse than the crop of wild boys, semi-literate liars, scumbags, gunslingers and crooks that you have representing you in parliament today.”

    The members of Parliament are OURS. We all voted for them. If they are “wild boys, semi-literate liars, scumbags, gunslingers and crooks” it is because we raised them so.

    And tobesides your guys are just waiting their turn to feast on the tax payers dollars.

  15. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @TheGazer February 14, 2016 at 8:00 PM “Have been reading Simple Simon’s contribution. Either she moved down a weight class or her training is paying off… she is punching well above here weight class”

    Spending 10 to 15 hours a week in the gym.

    Lolll!!!

  16. ac Avatar
    ac

    it is the parent responsibility for the rearing of the child how the child turns out is mostly connected to parenting//// parenting which teaches sound and moral values and not those so called sensational values rooted in a sense of entitlement,

  17. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon February 14, 2016 at 8:13 PM
    “The members of Parliament are OURS. We all voted for them. If they are “wild boys, semi-literate liars, scumbags, gunslingers and crooks” it is because we raised them so.”

    So are our schoolchildren: Good or bad, bright or dull, disciplined or indisciplined.
    They are all OURS which we brought into this world to fulfill your god’s plan.

    Variety is the spice of life. There will be no police force, lawyers, judges, social workers, counselors or jails without criminals.

  18. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ TheGazer
    AC has been on a diet too it seems …. and apparently frequenting the Gym…
    …but still punching from below her waist …(sshiite 🙂 )

    She can’t touch SS…

  19. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Miller
    Variety is the spice of life. There will be no police force, lawyers, judges, social workers, counselors or jails without criminals.
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    You also probably need to raise up some criminals to replenish the ranks of wunna ‘political class’ …as old fogeys such as yourself wither up and die off of wunna evil ways…

    No wonder you are so defensive of indisciplined students …. These are very likely to be future Bees… cause no decent citizen would join wunna shiite political class after experiencing your lot …and now Froon’s…

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea February 14, 2016 at 8:46 PM

    You can’t beat that one, can you Bushie?

    That’s clearly in keeping with your BBE’s master plan. And you, mi amigo, can’t do one bushshite about it. Neither in this world or at your next destination.

    Que sera, sera.
    Comprende?

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Miller

    Touché

  22. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    If this, if that, what if the child was rich, Chinese, White, Arab, Muslim, Christian, politician daughter, green, purple or blue? The point is It’s a black child, right? So the principal could have only done this to a black poor woman child. She would not dear touch that child if she was status quo- Oh no no no. You get this type of thinking because Barbados has created this type of atmosphere, doubt, and uncertainty when it comes to particular interests and matters of things bajan because that is the way the system functions. Barbados has not in the last decades created an environment of high efficiencies and professional conducts worth admiring, emulating or talk about. What we get, and have now, constantly, is the talk surrounding the weaknesses in the system and how uncouth and bombastic people are executing professional discourse. There is a constant stream of negative energy and tension. Although you get the odd good reports from time to time, a few good people doing something positive in various work environments trying to be the best that they can be, these reports and people are, simply, the exceptions more so than the rules. What Barbados got is a set of very poor paradigms that are shaping (and have shaped) the mindsets of people to be accustom to excepting nothing less than substandard practices in an environment that has become piss poorer over the years. It’s like the ministry of education or the way the current DLP government operates in public relations. They are all poor, poor, poor and reactive. So after the ministry of education exhibits its usual way of handling issues, this mother, who obviously knows the track record of this ministry on handling grievances, who knows that Barbados tends to treat its own with very little care but a whole lot of disdain is blinded by her accumulative frustrations and thus cannot see her wrong in this matter since she is busy seeing the injustices of the system being used to come down hard on her child. It does not matter how good this principle is, how well Springer Memorial has done, how rude the child was or how stupid the mother has acted out, the system that Barbados has created and design for itself is the system that is reinforcing defiance, waywardness, and disrespect towards things bajan all across its 11 parishes. It’s the price you have to pay for regress.

  23. islandgal Avatar
    islandgal

    ‘If this, if that, what if the child was rich, Chinese, White, Arab, Muslim, Christian, politician daughter, green, purple or blue?”

    Angry parent these “other children” you speak of are keeping their school clean along with those sweet youngsters at Reynold Weekes Primary. The white children keep their school clean, The muslims keep their school clean, some black children keep their school clean BUT the rest of the Black school population have grown into nasty stinking adults who litter and train their children to do the same. Unless a deadly disease becomes rampant in Barbados because of this littering you will see how many of these nasty litterers will start cleaning up or many might prefer to die than clean up around the island.

  24. Gabriel Avatar
    Gabriel

    SSS
    Well said

  25. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Islandgal

    I ain’t here to talk about who clean and who nasty. I here to talk about a system so stink it does not see itself as contributing to the mindset of a nasty lot. What is not hindered is allowed. What is not condemned is condoned. What is not catered too is permitted to fester. You cannot expect to ask a country to change ways when its systems work on respecters of persons. You cannot ask citizens to be good when its chiefs are bad. Come on islandgal. You think this is about what the whites, ethnic groups and privilege blacks do better than all other bajans who are operating at their worst? Barbados operates in a failed system and one that ignores the serious effects of poverty stricken environments and what those environments tend to breed when you do not intervene with a program to help people towards betterment. You think hungry unemployed people are going to take the time to teach values to their children when their hungry struggling parents did the same to them. Barbados got more strugglers than successes. More impoverish environments than rich ones. With that type of mix you need state mechanisms to control societal behaviour for the better.

  26. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    There are professionals in Barbados whose teen and adult children have publicly humiliated the parents.

    The entitled children have done everything from abandoning their own children, to drug abuse, to killing.

    I doubt that the parents feel good about these things.

    A number of the parents too have had to spend tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars shipping their hard ears children for drug treatment, or paing expensive lawyers.

    These children were acting out and the acting out was noted by others long, long before their BAD behaviour came to public attention.

    I know of one who traveled on the ZR’s with me and was acting out for years, but not a conductor or driver would tell his parents anything…because they know that so many Bajans don’t want anybody to say anything bad about their children, even if the bad things, the drug use, the promiscuity etc. is the TRUTH.

    So eventually the children and their parents butt up pun reality.

    Here endeth the lesson.

  27. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Angry bajan parent February 14, 2016 at 10:06 AM “I challenge that teacher or any teacher to tell a white or Muslim child who is sitting in a class room to pick up garbage that is outside the class room on the ground.”

    I’ve gone to the Muslim school and I know a number of people who teach there and who have also taught in the public school system and the school classrooms and yard are very clean and tidy and I have been told by some friends who teach there (black Christian women) that it is easier to teach there than in the public school system because the children are more compliant…and besides the principal doesn’t seem like the sort of man who would put up with insolence and disobedience.

    Let the children try that nonsense and see what happens.

    Lolll!!!

  28. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Hants it looks as though your schools are also troubled by some of the very same human issues that we face here in Barbados. That is what do do in very difficult situations?

    School exclusions can give special-needs students the boot — indefinitely
    Ontario principals have the power to kick special-needs kids out of school indefinitely if they can’t get the help they need. Unlike suspensions or expulsions, also permitted by Ontario’s Education Act, “exclusions” have no time limit. Critics charge there is too little oversight from school boards, and the education ministry doesn’t track how often principals use this power. Education experts warn these exclusions can put vulnerable children at a disadvantage. In some cases, special-needs children who present safety issues have been excluded from school for weeks. In one case, the [Toronto] Star discovered a Grade 4 [aged 9] boy was out of school for at least two and a half months.
    More at: http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2016/02/15/school-exclusions-can-give-special-needs-students-the-boot-indefinitely.html

  29. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ islandgal February 15, 2016 at 8:00 AM
    “The white children keep their school clean, The muslims keep their school clean, some black children keep their school clean BUT the rest of the Black school population have grown into nasty stinking adults who litter and train their children to do the same. Unless a deadly disease becomes rampant in Barbados because of this littering you will see how many of these nasty litterers will start cleaning up or many might prefer to die than clean up around the island.”

    That’s a rather damning indictment on the ‘average’ Bajan. But rather true.

    So I G, in which category would you put those responsible for weeding the streets and hedges and leaving the debris in the gutters for weeks and months on end to create both sanitation and drainage problems?
    Now don’t you go blaming the workers that do the weeding.

  30. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    millertheanunnaki February 15, 2016 at 2:41 PM #

    So I G, in which category would you put those responsible for weeding the streets and hedges and leaving the debris in the gutters for weeks and months on end to create both sanitation and drainage problems?
    Now don’t you go blaming the workers that do the weeding.
    ”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””’
    Many people get touchy when it is stated that we have regressed to the 1960’s. Today we have the latest in equipment, Mercedes Trucks, Mitsubishi trucks and all the other brand names Bobcats and Backhoes. Yet we are unable to adequately manage the low tech operation of cleaning up the weedings from the side of the road, which was formerly done, post haste, by a man and a donkey cart.

  31. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    But why are we so surprised that many Bajans have become so nasty. Not takeing care of our own surroundings is something that has been inculcated in us. Who kept the plantation great house lawns and gardens in pristine condition? Who now keep the lawns and gardens in the exclusive heights and terraces and gated communities in pristine condition? Who are the same people who have no time to clean the bush and mini forests around their own homes?
    Dah is we culture!!

  32. ac Avatar
    ac

    Cannot imagine my teacher requesting me to pick up a candy wrapper and reply with esteemed boldness and rudeness and on the face of it goes home and tell my mother what i told the teacher.
    Can/ t imagine my mother response to be equally caustic as mine
    Furthermore i know that my response would have met the tail end of a belt followed by my having to apologise to the teacher which in effect would have guaranteed me a rightful place back into school forthwith
    The parent of this child has woefully place her child education in favour of bragging rights with a toxic disadvantage to the childs best interest.
    Game on

  33. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @the AC who writes intelligently

    You write with so much common sense. It’s a pity that you could not be the same with your political views. The mother’s foolishness along with the type piss poor service sector environment are both responsible for this mess. The mother is a victim of the frustrations of the system.

  34. ac Avatar
    ac

    the mother is a victim of her own ignorance and far worst being allowed her child to be a poster child for political maneuvering

  35. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    Many of us in our time at school would have picked up the wrapper. The point is these are different times and the environment has changed. However the issue has moved and needs to be resolved by the authorities. The punishment must fit the crime.

  36. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ David you do realize that teachers does eat sweeties, mints an chocolate bars too and does accidentally drop wrappers pun de groun too.

  37. ac Avatar
    ac

    can/t imagine no child of mine in this era being rude and disrespectful to her teacher what does having disrespect to do with any era.

  38. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David

    Different times? Barbadians are renown for littering. This ain’t no different times excuse. The gullies and many highways of Barbados can attest to the nastiness of many bajans illegal dumping for years. This is a social problem that requires a social fix. That fix has to come in the form of teaching our picky-knees the importance of keeping their environment clean and how useful are the 3Rs. Well, you might have to teach them about Cahill and how the fiery furnace burns the waste. Wait! talking about Cahill, I am wondering what type of collection process will there be for all the waste to go the mini burning sun. I tell ya, if fees are going to be attached to the collection, you can expect more illegal dumping to come. Now back to the main event.

    The adults who are seasoned nasties, the Piss Poor Prime Minister, just like how he told someone in a car to pick something they threw through their window, should put legislation in place that anyone who sees any person littering, be it a child, teenager, adult or person, should ask that person politely to pick up and dispose their litter in a proper way and if non-compliant contact the nearest police station to lay a report for the police to drop an instant fine in your ass. I also feel too that the Piss Poor Prime Minister instead of talking shite about putting garbage out not knowing when the truck will come, should the SSA to use the newspapers or the internet to make collection times available via district collection. Would that not help people to know when to put the garbage out, Mr. Piss Poor Prime Minister?

  39. David Avatar
    David

    Educating our people to be sensitive about the environment requires a holistic approach. We have become too focused on the punitive.

  40. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    You underestimate the value of punitive….
    Casting pearls to swine is an expensive way of cleaning up the pigsty…

    It is much cheaper and more effective to put a couple lashes in his tail…

  41. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David

    We are only as good as the environment we create. Look, the shite going on Barbados is at too many levels that are lowe. Right now, when you think about Barbados tend these days towards the negative. If you doubt me check this out. I am going to write a few things and tell me what is the first thing that comes into your mind.

    Judiciary
    Social Services
    Government ministers
    BLP and DLP
    Professionalism
    Customer Service
    Central Bank Governor
    Journalism
    Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
    Educational System

    Tell me which out of them resulted in a positive when you read it?

  42. David Avatar
    David

    Agree, no positive association with the ones you posted.

  43. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    No @ AC at 1:58 NOT, game on!

    Your assessment is acceptable that 9 out of 10 parents would have scolded their child for disobeying the teacher even for this wrong-headed request because it was ONE wrapper – after all is said and done – and was not to clean the entire classroom.

    But your result is symptomatic of our caustic, belligerent inter-personal behaviour in society.

    If the mother proved to be a poor parent and doubly piss-poor adult re discipline and commonsense then the principal and Min of Ed should have been triply more studious to avoid just this situation.

    As far as I always understood management, one key reason people are elevated to positions of authority is based on their skill and ability to think clear in times of crisis and to temper the hostilities.

    Someone needed to be that skilled grown-up at the game so that ‘Game On’ was a resolution with the cantankerous mother and ill-disciplined child NOT a fight.

    Our society is doomed…because most everyone actually sees things with your depressing ‘bring the game on’ perspective…

    Where are the negotiators who start and end seeking rational compromise?????

  44. David Avatar
    David

    @Dee Word

    There is a tendency to disregard the outlier positions. Although the majority of parents would have scolded the student if there is one who refuses those in authority must have the ability and the system must have the capacity to resolve to a win win position.

  45. ac Avatar
    ac

    @ Dee word ,, The mother handling of this one situation does not necessarily mean that the mother is not good in other areas of parenting.
    However what i am assessing is a belligerence on the mothers part to protect and cover for her childs poor attitude in this issue
    As far as her other areas of parenting i have no idea …. be that as it may i have concluded based on both mother and parent attitude especially that of the parent that she is hell bent on covering up and protecting her childs misbehavior even if it means a stalemate and nothing outside of having a resolution that is favourable to her and her child
    The question then being how can anyone in management position reconciled with a parent who has made up there mind with some conviction that her child must be rewarded.
    To say that the Moe has not specifically met the mothers demands when initially requested by the mother is a form ” political speak”

  46. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David

    The resolution for this situation laid squarely in the hands of the parent. She simply just had to scold her daughter for being rude. The mere fact that she decided to behave like a shite is testament that there is something parental that needed investigating. Social services should have been in her ass right there after investigating the home situation and instructing her to get the girl back in school by prescribed period. Refusal by her again should have been meted with charges in her ass. I have no sympathy for the mother in this case because she behave like a shite. However, I think I understand why she took a stand because Barbados operates in a shitety one sided system.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    As stated by many we need to move the discussion forward, we accept the parent was wrong now what.

  48. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David
    Now, what! What you mean now what? This is Barbados that we are talking about. We make mountains out of mole hills and then blame everyone else for the dirt. The ‘now what’ that we are going to get is the same as it always has been. You just wait and see what Ronald Jones will declare.

  49. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    This is the point. After heaping blame on the parent (rightly or wrongly) we are here, deal with it. This is where the problem is, leadership. Jones sat on the AX file and what?

  50. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yes we are here indeed ! two alternatives was given to the parent and what has been to response so far …Hell NO.
    in any case the MOE has bent over backwards giving her the last word within a specific time period which will soon expire as to give an answer coming out of last week meeting.. Now it is totally up to her and her advisers as to which direction they wish to kick this political can
    Sooner rather than later the Moe if this mother remains with her belligerence the MOE might have to resort to legal action to have the child placed in school.
    This is no longer and “if” or where or when but a necessary action that should be undertaken rescuing and securing the education of the child a right by law ,

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