Expelling from school will make children criminals – Edmund Maduro
Seven (7) students were recently expelled from the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) while others were suspended for several misconducts, which included disrespecting the Principal (ag) Mr Wade W. Tobin and allegedly issuing serious threats to him.
Teachers at the school had led the call for the errant students to be expelled. Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn reluctantly acceded to their request but had also voiced his personal disapproval of such a move.
According to Mr Maduro, if a student becomes difficult to deal with, the answer is not to send him/her home but rather look for possible options of dealing with that child. “You don’t send them home to sit down, you look to send them to special schools, special classes, that that child must go for discipline,” he said.
He described the act of expulsion as “making criminals out of our own children” and recollected the action of sending a young man to another country to a special school and upon his return he was well groomed.
“If we cannot afford to build those schools here for children of that behaviour then we need to get into working relationships whether it be in Antigua, Barbados or whereever but our children need discipline. The punishment of dismissing them and sending them home to sit down is itself a crime.”
“Those who are doing it should go to Balsam Ghut, I don’t care what anybody says. I learnt one thing from my mother, she said if we cannot reach inside of a child you cannot teach that child and if you have enough education you’ll understand what she is saying,” he continued.
According to the talk show host, it is the task of teachers to study each child especially those with difficulties to find out what are the root causes of him/her being difficult. “Sometimes the difficulties come from the home, sometime you have to sit down with the mothers, the fathers. A brain is a terrible thing to waste,” lamented Mr Maduro.
He said a teacher should not just be thinking about their salaries but must be a dedicated citizen, dedicated to the future leadership of the country.
“It is criminal to suspend a child from school, just like that and send him home to sit down.” He said it is constitutional that children are guaranteed an education.
Maduro insisted that the government of the day has the responsibility to provide programmes for difficult children to recover. “Who knows? Somewhere down the line that child might become the premier!”
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35 Responses to “Expelling from school will make children criminals – Edmund Maduro”
And not taking your meds will make you TALK $h!T ALL DAY AND NIGHT! Schups!
Edmund go sit down with ur outer control self b**ting w*man in a bar
(To go on) the older ppl say edmon is a ***** so send your son to live with him. Lol