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speedist wrote:Wdmc. Pan look like it stick to he face yes. All dem school children grand fathers shoulda pull out. Steups.
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By Sue-Ann Wayow sue-ann.wayow@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Mar 20, 2014 at 9:43 PM ECT
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Story Updated: Mar 20, 2014 at 10:20 PM ECT )
THE POSSESSION of knives and consumption of alcohol are the two big issues involving deviant primary school pupils.
This is according to Vallence Rambarath, president of the National Primary Schools Principals’ Association (NAPSPA).
He said yesterday there would be, on average, at least one report weekly of a behavioural problem from a primary school.
All reports were from schools in urban areas, he said.
Rambarath said that only on Wednesday, a principal had to suspend a pupil because the child brought a weapon to school.
Disciplinary centres for both primary and secondary school pupils should be established to deal with these problems, Rambarath said.
His suggestion comes after Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley’s statement that special schools should be built to deal with children demonstrating bad behaviour.
Rowley said on Tuesday that violent pupils “be extracted from the environment in which you are (mis)behaving and put into another environment”.
Rambarath, principal of Buenos Ayres Government Primary School, said: “What we have been really calling for is centres to be established and staffed to cater for the behavioural patterns exhibited by our students in our school system.
With such a centre, we would have students moving between the school and the centre on a case-by-case basis. Some may have to be referred for a week, or on an ongoing basis, until improvement is seen in their behaviour.”
One centre should be built for each educational district, Rambarath said.
“We don’t feel that they should have a special(ly) dedicated school where children will go to school for five years or seven years, we feel that they should be able to move there if they need (to) be.”
Pupils’ education will not be affected if they attend these centres, Rambarath said.
Pupil slaps teacher
TTUTA: School violence cause for concern
By Susan Mohammed and Sue-Ann Wayow
Story Created: Mar 20, 2014 at 9:45 PM ECT
Story Updated: Mar 20, 2014 at 10:20 PM ECT
A teacher at Jordan Hill Presbyterian Primary School, near Princes Town, ended up in hospital yesterday after being knocked to the ground by a Fifth Standard pupil.
And at Curepe Presbyterian Primary School, a First Year pupil slapped a teacher several times during a class session.
The Jordan Hill assault has been reported to police, while the Curepe case has been reported to the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers’ Association (TTUTA).
Lynsley Doodhai, TTUTA’s second vice-president, said the teacher at Curepe observed there were scratches and scribbles in a book. When the teacher asked about it, the pupil allegedly slapped her several times.
Doodhai said TTUTA was alarmed at the level of school violence, especially in primary schools.
“It is cause for concern,” he said.
The 32-year-old female teacher at Jordan Hill Presbyterian was taken to hospital for treatment after a male pupil assaulted her.
The Express was told the boy was questioned by police officers of Princes Town Police Station yesterday.
Doodhai said he received a report that the boy had a history of deviant behaviour.
Doodhai said he was told the teacher was in the washroom when she heard a noise at the door.
“She came outside and asked who pelt the door. The (suspect) allegedly slapped her and threw her on the ground,” said Doodhai.
The teacher was treated at hospital for bruises to the back, neck, arm and elbow.
Doodhai said TTUTA is investigating the incident.
And in San Fernando, a trainee at Presentation College, San Fernando, reported to police that her cell phone and tablet were stolen on the school’s compound.
The 22-year-old trainee reported to police that the items were left in her handbag.
According to a police report, she said that around 11.20 a.m. she left her Samsung Tab 3, valued $3,500, and a Blackberry Torch, valued at $4,000, in the school’s staff room.
She said she made a check for the items at around 12.35 p.m. and they were missing.
A report was made to San Fernando Police Station and WPC Dyer is investigating.
In response to these incidents, Vallence Rambarath, president of the National Primary Schools’ Principals’ Association (Napspa), said: “There is a major problem in schools with respect to behaviour and the history of violence in schools must be brought to the front burner now.
“We cannot sit by and say it does not exist. The recent incidents point to the fact that students are unruly, impolite, very disrespectful and disruptive and it is affecting the education system.”
The Ministry of Education needs to meet with all persons involved in the system to discuss the issue of violence in schools, he said.
zoom rader wrote:All this anger and anti social behaviour is a result of the new trini culture which is based on a hustle, status, race and the political environment . Carnival is part cause and should be banned in schools and on the national level. Wine and jam in standard one is all wrong.
Most of these youths lack a stable home and father figure. These parents are also part cause, they have kids for different men and most kids have never seen their father. Fathers day in PNM Strong hold areas is like mass confusion . This generation is all wrong for one part of the nation society, expect in 5 to 10 years real angry ppl and more child mothers.
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