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Some parents afraid of their own children- Acting Education CEO
That was the chilling admission of Acting Chief Education Officer Orlandette R. Crabbe, speaking on the grave issue of misconduct among young students in the Virgin Islands.
Mrs Crabbe was speaking during a live broadcast of the Public Eye titled Navigating the Challenges: A Community Approach to Eradicating Social Violence, Drugs, and Sexual Abuse. The show, on February 10, 2025, was hosted by Acting Communications Director in the Premier’s Office Karia J. Christopher and included as guests the Minister for Education, Youth Affairs, and Sports Honourable Sharie B. de Castro (AL), Mrs Crabbe, and Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Inspector Kendolph Bobb.
The Acting Chief Education Officer and former school teacher and principal pressed for parents to closely monitor their children's behaviour from an earlier age, warning that signs of aggression, dishonesty, and defiance are often evident long before secondary school.
"What we see happening at secondary schools didn’t start there. It started much earlier and you see it in your children just like we see it in our classrooms, you see them being aggressive with their cousins and siblings. You see them lacking logical reason. They don’t own up to anything."
Some parents, she said, only seek help when their children’s behaviour spirals out of control, placing the burden of discipline solely on schools and noted that in some cases, parents have even admitted to being afraid of their own children, highlighting the severity of the crisis.
Antagonistic parents
Mrs Crabbe further pointed out that the role of parents in shaping their children's behaviour and attitudes is also crucial, and publicly voiced concern that some parents take an antagonistic approach towards school authorities, which undermines discipline and emboldens students to defy rules.
"We also have parents who approach the school with an antagonistic approach, and they make life difficult and unfortunately, some of this happens in front of their children; So you can imagine when I see my mom or dad behave this way towards my principal because they are upholding a policy, then it teaches me that I don’t have to uphold that policy."
She said, quite frankly, some students disregard school rules because they believe their parents will support them in defying authority.
According to the Chief Education Officer, this parental behaviour reinforces a culture of indiscipline, making it more challenging for schools to maintain order.
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24 Responses to “Some parents afraid of their own children- Acting Education CEO ”
women get up pick up some street dude who aggressive with mommy issues and in problems and possibly abuse them. give them kids and boom another problem is spawned. then they grow up spoiled and sometimes with an authoritative father figure causing the child to do whatever them feel like with no consequence then that child comes into schools to be a problem..
i guarantee if anyone one of yall problem kids be a problem to my child i will deal with them and the parents idgaf if you afraid of your own pissy tail child then i for sure ain afraid of none of yall craziness
and the new generation of parents so illogical yall doing this gentle parenting nonsense where you dont discipline your child but look at the mess yall make later down the road now you afraid of your child. our parents may have been a lil rough and harsh on dicipline us but it kept us in good standing with good morals and proper behavior so yall just need to find a balance but once your kid get too big yah salt
then we have the street women of low standards getting kids for men of low standards creating child long before them rdy bcuz none of them rdy to drop the party life and going out but they have child so more problems
I mean how can rhe women get pregnant without those married men? Didn't they know they were married and what's likely to happen when they have unprotected sex???
Marriage is the exception, rather than the general position in the territory.
Single parenting is really very, very prevalent here. Sometimes parenting by people who aren't even a parent because neither parent is responsible.
I hope things turn out OK for mine. I wish all the parents affected the best of luck. It's a big responsibility, the duty to bring up children and not drag them up.