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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. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    I don’t know how adults don’t seem to understand it’s about the best interest of the child and not about demeaning her or her mother, it’s about getting her back into scholl and that will be the end. I suspect some are on here telling blatant lies on both the child and mother.

    Your 15 minutes of fame is up, go away unless you have something decent to say about the girl. Everyone is saying the girl is well behaved, then it means the mother will have to be doing something right.

    What a bunch of miserable people with miserable lives. If Ronald Jones was not such a jacksss, this would be long over, the matter resolved and the child back in school..this is what happens when you have idiots for politicians.

  2. curious Avatar
    curious

    David
    The solution is clear, the mother wants a step up and so grant her that wish. Returning to Springer is going right back to trouble because the mother does not believe in the rules. Rules such as wearing to school the correct ear rings, Uniform below the knee, respecting your teachers, respecting the instructions of the Principal and not bringing to school a cell phone. The human right issue of not picking up a wrapper could be repeated because all teachers are informed not to start a lesson unless the form rooms are tidy. Now a Janitor cannot be called to tidy a classroom that she swept before school started and students are now in the class and no paper was there from the beginning. The students are taught to keep their surroundings clean because there was this big rat issue already at the school.

    The Ministry should give her choice at St. Michaels , Foundation ,Harrison College, Queens College, Lodge, Combermere or Alexandra. These are six form schools,but let her know that because you go to a six form do not mean you get into the six form because you have to apply to a six form school through the Ministry. The Principals from HC and QC take the best of their students who have the entry requirements the others move on to other six form schools or Community College.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @curious

    Agree with some of your last comment. Where it can be challenged is not respecting the right of a student to refuse to do something that is not legislated. The authority of schools must be trained to effectively deal with these soft issues.

  4. curious Avatar
    curious

    There is a New Examination by CXC called CCSLC. To get the certificate in Barbados the students have to do thirty hours of community service. This is compulsory for all secondary students. Now we can have many protestors about human rights here because the students must do a community service. Community service can be cleaning up your community, cleaning the beach, helping out at homes for the elderly etc. The activity has to be signed off by a supervisor of the activity.

  5. David Avatar
    David

    @curious

    The schools give options to fulfill the requirements of CCSLC. If the student picks up garbage to get the qualification it is with the parent’s permission.

  6. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ curious February 13, 2016 at 4:49 PM

    So you think highlighting the rights of the child in question is a load of rubbish.

    So let us put a scenario to you. Let us imagine the same shoe was on your foot and you were walking along the same avenue as the child’s parent.

    Your little Sally Ann came home and told you a similar story involving her refusal to pick up litter she did not make and her objection to the punishment meted out to her.

    What would you have done?

    Now we don’t want to hear any nonsense about your child would never react like that or find herself in such a position because of her proper training and your middleclass parental skills.

    Remember that some of the biggest white collar criminals were raised in some of the most ‘disciplined’ environments and attended some rather prestigious schools. We shall refrain from making reference to anyone in particular in the public domain at this stage.

    Tells us Mr. or Ms “curious”, what would you do?

    We are more than just curious to know also if you think the children involved in the ZR incident should be punished for catching the ZR instead of the ‘free’ Transport Board buses. After all, they disobeyed the policy directives issued by the MoE.

    What do you think should be their punishment? Expulsion from school or the Insurance company’s refusal to accept any liability for claims of injury and other damages?

  7. curious Avatar
    curious

    David
    We always spoke about the Singapore model well lets look at their discipline code for schools and see how we can improve ours. It is said you do not see a piece of chewing gum on the streets of Singapore. Remember they gave an American student 12 lashes for writing graffiti on a wall. America screamed about human rights but he got them still. We must have discipline in the places where students are mostly socialized, the home and school.

  8. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ curious February 13, 2016 at 6:05 PM
    “These are six form schools,but let her know that because you go to a six form do not mean you get into the six form because you have to apply to a six form school through the Ministry. The Principals from HC and QC take the best of their students who have the entry requirements the others move on to other six form schools or Community College.”

    There you go again, promulgating and promoting that ‘elitist ‘ foolishness.
    So if the principal has the last say as to who are enrolled in their sixth forms what is the role of MoE?

    Shouldn’t the six forms be based on specialization of disciplines and not the elitist approach based on the rote system of judging intelligence? Yes in true Victorian style take the academic cream and leave the rest for the other ‘lower-class’ institutions.

    No wonder Barbados is unable to implement anything meaningful to bring about the social and economic changes needed to deal with a modern globalized competitive environment.

    When your so-called bright sparks are able to come up with measures to clean up the country, improve public sanitation and revitalize agriculture the mainstay of any developed or developing country we will listen to your justification for so many duplicating sixth forms.

  9. curious Avatar
    curious

    What was the punishment?

  10. curious Avatar
    curious

    I am not promulgating any foolishness that’s the present system. When you become a Minister change the elitist system. Don’t just talk now and then follow the same system when things change.

  11. de Ingrunt Word Avatar
    de Ingrunt Word

    @David at 6:17 PM…your remarks are interesting re “The authority of schools must be trained to effectively deal with these soft issues”.

    I call it interesting because I am always ‘interested’ when problems arise and we see/hear remarks about training.

    When police authorities abuse an individual we are advised that they need to be trained or re-trained.

    When an employee in a gov’t dept. or in private enterprise abuses a customer, again the issue of training and retraining is discussed and implemented.

    The problem is: how much training does a person need to be certified as having common sense? How many times must BS take place and ANOTHER training regimen done”

    How did the teacher or police-office or employee get into their position in the damn FIRST place without proper and adequate training? This is Century 21…not year one.

    Anyone in a government job dealing with people who has not been trained is a Martian…i,e non-existent on earth, in sum.

    We have been trained beyond our wildest abilities to take in all the exercises and theories….

    WE simply must stop our asinine, powerful-foolish behaviour and treat each-other with respect and decorum. PERIOD. A ‘real’ novel and radical concept that needs to be drilled into everyone’s thick skull.

  12. David Avatar
    David

    @curious

    You shouldn’t cherry pick from the Singapore model.

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    CURIOUS

    YOU ARE WASTING YOUR TIME WITH THE JOKERS ON BU
    BUT YOU HAVE MAD THE MOST SENSE OF ALL THE POSTS ON THIS THREAD AND YOU HAVE IN MY OPINION BEEN TELLING THE TRUTH

  14. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ curious February 13, 2016 at 6:50 PM #
    “We always spoke about the Singapore model well lets look at their discipline code for schools and see how we can improve ours. It is said you do not see a piece of chewing gum on the streets of Singapore..”

    Stop it, curious! Stop with the comparison with Singapore.
    Singapore also carries out executions for certain capital offences.
    Would you also propose Barbados follow suit despite it being a signatory to a number of conventions which deem capital punishment to be cruel and inhumane?

    The difference between Singapore and Barbados is that in Singapore the laws are applicable to and enforced against all of its citizens. Not so in Barbados.
    In Singapore the likes of Greenverbs Parris would be lost away in jail with the speaker sharing a similar cell and the deputy speaker deprived of the ill-gotten inheritance.
    Get the bigger picture, Mr. Myopia from small island Bim?

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Any person who has to interact with the players in the education system knows that it can be very challenging. Yes we have children who are bad behave but we also have teachers, Principals et al who are working for a paycheck.

    Did anyone listen to the parent who called SLAM in Friday and broke down in tears when she narrated the stories that her daughter shared with her about goings in at her school? The stories went both ways.

  16. curious Avatar
    curious

    Miller
    My last post on this issue
    Yes I believe we should hang murderers who have been found guilty by a Jury. You were bold to take a life don’t be afraid to lose yours. The great Human Rights USA execute people who were on death row for over twenty years.

  17. Well Well & Consequences Avatar
    Well Well & Consequences

    “and not bringing to school a cell phone.”

    I thought Jones said cellphones are ok in schools, if Jones says it’s ok and the principal says it’s not, someone is getting crossed signals, the students are caught in the middle.

    I heard parents complain about children taking weapons to school andcthrestening othrr children and the pricipal does nothing…….something is wrong, someone has a personal vendetta against this child.

  18. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    DIW;

    I think you got to the root of the problem when you said:

    “WE simply must stop our asinine, powerful-foolish behaviour and treat each-other with respect and decorum. PERIOD. A ‘real’ novel and radical concept that needs to be drilled into everyone’s thick skull.”

    That should be the key aspect of our educational system until “Respect everyone” becomes the mantra of all.

    This situation would not have reached where it has if:

    The Teachers respected the mother
    The Minister respected the mother
    The teachers respected the student
    The Minister respected the student.
    The Chief Education Officer respected the intelligence of anyone reading the content of her “due diligence” froth

    and most importantly;

    The daughter respected her teacher and principal, and
    The mother respected all of the above

    We have a long way to go in terms of showing true respect for all the people we meet. We had more respect for others 50 years ago. We’ve lost much of that respect in the interim.

    Hate to bring up the KIng Dyal thing again, but I suspect much of the negatives of his life were engendered by a lack of respect by his “subjects”.

  19. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    Edutech….tablets….cellphones.

  20. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ curious February 13, 2016 at 7:33 PM
    “Yes I believe we should hang murderers who have been found guilty by a Jury. You were bold to take a life don’t be afraid to lose yours. The great Human Rights USA execute people who were on death row for over twenty years.”

    You have just revealed the last card in your hand. Now we can understand why you would like to see the schoolgirl tarred and feathered for disobeying an unjust and unauthorized instruction from a teacher even though the child was within her rights to so do.
    America also allows ordinary law-abiding citizens to carry firearms as part of their Constitutional rights. Would you support such a policy in place in Barbados?

    Instead of shooting at an easy target like a blind man why not demand from your government the curtailment of all agreements with those international human rights institutions that are preventing the execution of condemned killers in Barbados.?
    That should take a bit of pressure off the taxpayers who have to pay for their upkeep until they die or sent back onto the streets.

  21. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ Curious
    Surely by now you have deduced that Miller is a ‘half-a-idiot’; ..don’t have any children; ..and in fact, made a complete mess of the same education system when involved some years ago…
    Give up do…. where anunnaki is talking shiite it is folly to be wise…

    ‘Half-a-idiots’ want to enjoy the benefits of ‘Singapore success’ without having the pain and sacrifice of the discipline, community spirit and productivity that goes with it…

    @ David
    Do you REALLY think that even a committed and dedicated Ministry of Education would override the desires of the parent of a minor and ‘do what is in her best interest’? …far less a known bunch of incompetent jokers?

    This WHOLE shiite is ALL about the parent….
    NO ONE ELSE can make decisions about the child being back in school – not even the damn child… until she is sixteen…… want a transfer ….not that school…. not either….. I want to choose…… we want back Springer…. somebody gotta pay me….
    …What exactly do you want authorities to do? ..declare the mother to be an unsuitable parent and put the girl in a home?

    ‘Bad parents’ are responsible for MOST of the failures seen in young people. Some go so far as to send children to school with drugs to sell… some expose them to destructive influences; some simply give no support …and some ignore them completely….
    The authorities can only do so much when parents fail to play the roles that they are supposed to in children’s lives.
    This is a simple case of a parent giving a child bad advice, and being dogged enough to maintain her position despite the ill effects on her child.

    It is far-fetched to expect that even Jones’ brass bowl ministry would now kowtow to such rebel actions – even if there was merit to the action. The implications for other idiots challenging the system would be too much to even contemplate…
    …next the half-a-idiot Miller would be looking to introduce courses on the anunnaki and Nibiru at 11 plus…

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Bush Tea

    The Court intervenes everyday to protect the rights and care for the well being of our children.

  23. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea February 13, 2016 at 8:04 PM #
    “@ Curious Surely by now you have deduced that Miller is a ‘half-a-idiot’; ..don’t have any children; ..and in fact, made a complete mess of the same education system when involved some years ago…”

    Yes Bush Master, you have one out of three correct. The miller is “a half-a-idiot.”
    That makes you two-thirds- an-idiot.

    Even ac would agree with me on this one or she might just go for the full hog and call you a complete ass.
    When you are capable of leaving the bush and come into the light of the 21st Century your 10 point plan might attract some interest of laughter even from your BBE.

  24. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea February 13, 2016 at 8:04 PM…
    “next the half-a-idiot Miller would be looking to introduce courses on the anunnaki and Nibiru at 11 plus…”

    If an intellectual dinosaur like you Bushie can talk about the Sumerian history technology and knowledge why can’t a 11 year old. Or would you still want to instill in their head that Eve pick a fruit and gave it to Adam and which caused the Bushman to be here today?
    But I am glad you have broadened your sphere of reading. Keep it up. Carl Sagan would have been proud of you.

  25. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    LOL ha ha ha
    …the court …. You mean the BARBADOS courts?
    ha ha ha ha
    ..good one boss… 🙂

    @ Miller
    Do you read back your posts…?
    Shiite then…. you sounding more convoluted than AC ..
    How does Miller being a half-a-idiot make Bushie anything…?
    …what is the matter – menopausal hot flash or wuh…?

  26. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    Very likely the child will have to repeat this school year.

    Like it or lump it if she passed for Springer Memorial she likely got <50% on the 11+ which would mean that she had a weak grasp of the elementary school curriculum.

    Unless she has has had some serious teaching since then, and unless she has done some seriously learning she may well also have a poor grasp of the secondary school curriculum.

    So how is she going to catch up? (will the lawyer and her mother help her to catch up at home?)

    And if she needs to repeat this school year she may turn 16 before she has completed the secondary school curriculum.

    And if Barbados the formal school leaving age is 16, which means that the state is under no obligation to provide schooling for her after that age.

    And she will be required to leave the secondary school system without having completed her secondary education.

    And unless the family has money to pay for her privately she will have difficulty going on to a college/university education.

  27. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yes indeed would agree at this juncture an intervention by the court on the childs behalf is necessary .one that would be fair and objective and clearing the way for speedy resolution
    As it seems that a delay tactic is now an avenue pursued by her advisors

  28. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @ac February 13, 2016 at 7:39 AM “In barbados blacks are divided among themselves because of a grade level in accordance to which school attended.”

    Contrary to what is being said here it is not a black thing nor a Barbados thing.

    EVERY country in the world uses academic rankings.

    The person who is only able to get <20% in formal exams is unlikely to be in the same class as the person who routinely get >90% in exams

    Don’t let anybody fool you. This is how the real world works.

  29. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Bush Tea February 13, 2016 at 8:24 PM

    Tsk, tsk, Bushie. It was poor Caswell receiving a cussing and a shower of maligning. Now it’s my turn. Nothing to do menopausal hot flashes. Just a touch of old age affecting the grumpy codger. I am sure you will empathize 100%, old comrade from Bumpy Moore days. I can remember you really enjoying those soft strokes across you behind.

  30. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @millertheanunnaki February 13, 2016 at 9:48 AM “the rights of the child to be so blatantly abrogated.”

    Nobody has abrogated the rights of the child, except perhaps her mother.

  31. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon February 13, 2016 at 8:29 PM
    “Like it or lump it if she passed for Springer Memorial she likely got <50% on the 11+ which would mean that she had a weak grasp of the elementary school curriculum.

    Unless she has has had some serious teaching since then, and unless she has done some seriously learning she may well also have a poor grasp of the secondary school curriculum.
    So how is she going to catch up? (will the lawyer and her mother help her to catch up at home?)”

    So who says (other than SS) that the child cannot go on and become Minister of Finance or Minister of Transport of Works? .
    Tell us SS, what was the pass mark for the then Garrison Secondary?

    She certainly will be able to tell the difference between
    A Fiscal deficit and a Physical deficit or between ‘Aspersions’ and ‘Aspirations’

  32. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @millertheanunnaki February 13, 2016 at 9:48 AM “Isn’t the child being treated like some object of derision and social ostracism and displayed in public like some strangely reared creature>”

    So who is displaying the child in public?

    Is it not her own mother?

  33. David Avatar
    David

    There comes a time when sensible people agree to disagree.

    Jesus.

  34. David Avatar
    David

    Are non Blacks able to empathize or in any way relate to the Negro/slave experience and all that it brings with it?

  35. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon February 13, 2016 at 8:38 PM

    So who prevented the child from attending the SMSC to received a legally entitled education? The mother? Did the child commit a crime (illegal act) or blatantly broke the codified school rules

  36. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @millertheanunnaki February 13, 2016 at 1:42 PM “In the absence of actual proof of the child littering the teacher, and if required the principal, should have disciplined the entire class and taught a lesson about cleanliness being next to go(o)dliness.”

    And what if the teacher had attempted to discipline the entire class and the entIre class had objected, and refused to pick up any litter. And what if instead of 1 mother, 1 lawyer, and 1 children’s rights adviser in a 2 hour meeting with the Minister…we had 30 mothers, 30 lawyers, and 30 children’a rights advisers in a 60 hour meeting with the Minister of Education.

    Because remember all 30 children in the class can claim that they did not put the litter on the floor and are therefore not required to pick it up, and in fact will not pick it up.

  37. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Georgie Porgie February 13, 2016 at 1:28 PM “DO THEY STEAL AND RAPE AND MURDER IN ISLAMIC TYPE SOCIETIES?”

    Actually Georgie yes they do.

    Wherever there are human beings there is stealing and raping and murdering.

  38. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Miller;

    Not that breaking this rule should be punishable in the manner that the young lady has been punished, but 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)

  39. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Simple Simon February 13, 2016 at 9:14 PM
    “And what if the teacher had attempted to discipline the entire class and the entIre class had objected, and refused to pick up any litter..”

    Then do what your Jesus ‘taught’ you to do. Forgive them and pick it up yourself as a show of humility the same way he washed the feet of his disciples.
    “I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet. So you also should wash one another’s feet. I have given you an example. You should do as I have done for you.”~ John 13:14-15

    Otherwise use your commonsense and call the janitor. Just like you would call the police if some one breaks into your house or hits your vehicle and drives away.

    That lesson will cost you nothing!

  40. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @curious “The solution is clear, the mother wants a step up and so grant her that wish.”

    So if disobedient children are given a steup as a reward for their disobedience.

    What reward do we give to obedient children?

    Do we give every obedient child a step up too. Or do we punish them for their obedience by making them remain at a “lower” school?

  41. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    There was a country once (I forget which one) which awarded the country’s highest national honour to their bronze medal winning sports team.

    The question was asked but not answered, when some day a sports team wins a gold medal at the Olympics what will be their reward?

  42. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    millertheanunnaki February 13, 2016 at 6:32 PM “We are more than just curious to know also if you think the children involved in the ZR incident should be punished.”

    Nah. They already been punished by being banged up in the accident…that should be punishment enough for most of them.

    Gravity punished their hard ears little @sses. Lol!!!

    Don’t mess with gravity.

    They went up, and then they came down. Hard.

  43. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea February 13, 2016 at 8:04 PM “…What exactly do you want authorities to do? ..declare the mother to be an unsuitable parent and put the girl in a home?”

    Yes.

    Just last week i offered to keep her until such times as she completes her formal education. She need not go in a “home” she can live with this family in the community.

  44. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @Bush Tea February 13, 2016 at 8:04 PM “‘Bad parents’ are responsible for MOST of the failures seen in young people. Some go so far as to send children to school with drugs to sell… some expose them to destructive influences; some simply give no support …and some ignore them completely….”

    True.

    And some sit own at home and watch pornography with their children and “justify” their actions by saying that the children will be exposed to pornography at some time anyhow,

  45. Simple Simon Avatar
    Simple Simon

    @millertheanunnaki February 13, 2016 at 8:45 PM “So who says (other than SS) that the child cannot go on and become Minister of Finance or Minister of Transport of Works? .
    Tell us SS, what was the pass mark for the then Garrison Secondary?”

    Alas no formal education, no experience and no common sense required to be a Cabinet Minister.

    I think that the Pass mark of the garrison then was in the ,60% range

    Which would indicate that the students had barely grasped the elementary school curriculum.

  46. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    Based on the press reports on the Minister’s meetings yesterday with the Mother and her Legal and other advisors, I fear this matter might be heading, like the Alexandra one, to the PM for a resolution.

    Any bets that, if that happens, The PM will provide a solution that will be no less brilliant than the Alexandra one and might therefore call for a new Education Commission, headed by a retired Judge, that will:

    Provide guidance on how such matters must be treated in the future.

    Provide guidance on the setting up of a dispute resolution body in the MoE that would be mobilized when such matters recur.

    Recommend the modalities for training Principals and Department Heads on the correct way to handle such disputes.

    Develop comprehensive and specific legislation to proscribe the handling of such incidents.

    Clearly identify the types of orders or instructions which students are at liberty to refuse to carry out.

    Develop a list of schools with a check list of attributes that should be used to identify alternative schools for children who have to undergo dispute resolution procedures.

    Update the current Education Act as necessary to give effect to the new thinking emanating from difficulties involved in resolving the current impasse.

    For the current dispute, however, roll the matter back to the day before the initial incident occurred. i.e. The young lady returns to Springer; the Headmistress be mandated to call in the new dispute resolution body if the young lady refuses, on the advice of her mother, to carry out any new instructions of any type from her teachers or Principal (which must be pre-vetted by the dispute resolution body); etc. etc.

    Wuhloss! Muh belly!

  47. are-we-there-yet Avatar
    are-we-there-yet

    I forgot to list in the last paragraph above;

    The Springer Headmistress be transferred to one of the “step-up” schools. Thereby neither of the protaganists appear to have scored a definite victory and each “face” will be saved.

    How yuh like muh?

  48. Caswell Franklyn Avatar
    Caswell Franklyn

    Only yesterday I heard of a case where a child was wearing her socks too high according to the principal. The child was ordered to remove the socks and give them to the principal. The child refused and was suspended by the principal for three days. Guess which school?

    Sent from my iPad

    >

  49. ac Avatar
    ac

    ac said a very long time ago that bush tea is a hypocrite but no one believed me , now slowly but surely those which bush tea endeared and called plausible candidates as good leaders or stewards for Barbados Underground POOP ( BUP) now those who have felt the warth of his arrogance would have come to their senses and realize what has been said about his taste for hypocrite is true .
    Exhibit A caswell.. Bush shit has openly and without doubt endorse Caswell as strong and well deserved leadership for Barbados Underground POOP (BUP_ but alas unable to refrain his taste for hypocrisy bush shite turned to his favourite page bringing all such well spoken words and endorsement of Caswell to a screeching halt a few days ago while exposing sordid details of indiscipline actions of which Caswell was a participant many years ago
    the guy is simply amazing a politician in every stretch of the word

  50. ac Avatar
    ac

    How come BU is all hush hush when the rest of the media is abuzz with the story of the sudden departure of another BLP stalwart who said he would run on a DLP ticket wuh loss muh belly

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