I am not sure that a principal is acting illegally by sending a student home. What constitutes ill-discipline or injury? From my viewpoint, anything; even words said.

If the Minister wants it to be the way he says, then he has to get Parliament to change the legislation. The Principals will not give in that easily and the unions are another matter to deal with. An employer has a duty to run an establishment within the scope of law and order; provide safe environment, etc. There is no doubt that the Principal has to do what has to be done to maintain discipline; otherwise the risk of losing many more children would be very high.

Really, when all is said and done, if anything happens, the bill will be at the Ministry where the ultimate responsibility lies and the Principal will still be within his/her right.

I agree that there are other ways of disciplining students for certain infringements other than sending them home.

Maybe the Minister could have adressed the matter in another forum, but then how many parents would have known that their children are possibly being put at risk “illegally” because they broke the school rules and the Ministry of Education’s rules?

One could even ask if the Ministry has a “book of punishment” which can be referred to in case their rules are violated.

You wrong about the law thing too… but I am sure that you know that.

Always think of them as God’s children.

Children of the KING.

Then yo will feel honoured to have the opportunity to serve the King by taking care of his children.

The answer is yes, for more than a decade. It has been a most rewarding experience. Just about the best thing I have ever done in my life.

I enjoy taking of children, mine and other people’s and it does not matter whether they are newborns or teenagers.

I can live in both the lawfull and Lawless world, can you? :) While i do understand your points re. changes to laws and the legislating of new laws done in haste and seemly not congnizant of the prevailing reality and mindset of the citizentry, as to who gine follow dum and who gine enforce dum, the reality is that man cannot get along, it is not in our nature to get along for any length of time, hence the need for an agreed to process to guide our relationships, too arbitrate our differences, and too allow us an oppertunity plan our actions somewhat into the near future. The LAW does that. We need to get into the habit of including the relevant legislation when dealing with a particular issue. Case in point. Cecil McCarthy, suggested some changes to the current education act, and while i am not highlighting or agreeing to what he contends are important and needed changes I am however hightlighting his approach to making changes to laws. Breaking them, ignoring them, for whatever reason should not be encouraged.

My question to J is Have you ever had to take care of other peoples children ( people that you did not know) ? What was that experience like?

Do you realise what teachers are dealing with everyday?

Maybe a good number of our parents and teachers are like you in a “drifting” phase.

Jones was wrong wthere B or D he was wrong…

He could have made a pro-child speech with out crying down the head teachers in front of the students…

he could have made a speech about the many changes he was going to introduce at the ministry to help children get a proper education… there was so many other paths he could have taken .

What i find interesting with generation of children parents and the society are:

1. We want nicer teachers, better teachers for our children but we are not paying for such.
2. Our children are to be disciplined only in a manner prescribed by the parents… so I guess the tachers must call up these parents to ask how to discipline these kids.

3. Respect is earned some people like to say as opposed to having respect for a position such as a police, teacher, priest etc… which I guess means that childern should not respect authority UNTIL they earn that respcet…what aload of rubbish.

4.Children should not be sent home from school because they might get interferred with etc etc… Of course they do not get troubled when they are loitering in the bus stand and in town or pun a min-bus

5. Teachers need to understand the fact that de children have home problems and should be excused because of such… that explains why trhey have brand name gear, 20 earings, tattoes all over and a knife so let them be…

I could go on

fah real!

In other words? HE MKG SURE THEY WORK AND BU WANTS JONES 2 RESIGN? choopz

Mussee got a friend who needs a pick, yuh!

Read ALL my comments on this matter again and explain to me EXACTLY what is STUPID or IRRESPONSIBLE about them”

I am with my ALL my children EVERYDAY, from the day they are born until after they are responsible working ADULTS. I take (not send) them to church EVERY SUNDAY, my children are at school EVERYDAY that the school is open. The teachers NEVER complain about my children. My children are bright, respectful, honest, do not use drugs nor alcohol and have NEVER witnessed, nor experienced an act of violence in my home.

Can you Scout say the same?

I also have to blame parents who refuse to check reports showing that they children were absent for numerous days when the children never remained at home. When my children were at school, I can tell you when ever my children were sick and had to remain at home. When I see reports, the first thing I look for is the days absent section, then I would look at marks.

So Tony, those students are qualified limers due to the slackness of parents.

What law what?!?
I am not talking bout no law -I talking bout common sense…

You name for me ONE law passed by the BLP in the last 10 years that make any kind of sense to you…..

They mash up Education, Credit Unions, Traffic management, Safety and health, land use policy, Immigration… you name it….

They passed numerous CSME laws that REMOVES the rights that Barbadians had as citizens here (our birthrights); refused to pass needed ones (like breathalyser testing), and almost all of those that they DID pass turned out to be flawed (like the seat belt one that had to be withdrawn partially etc)

What laws what?!? our recent laws are just a bunch of poorly thought out ideas put together by a bunch of jokers.

I put it to you that it IS the new education act – pushed by a gang of BLP women to try to bring Principals to heel- that has most resulted in the current poor performance of our schools.

You better try and come back home yuh!!! I can’t believe a sensible product of Holmes hamcutters could have come to the point of using laws put together by people who waged years of war against school principals (-starting with Orrie Smith- destroying schools like Lodge in the process) as something sacrosanct.

It must be something you eating down there in the ‘new nighted states’ yuh…

Are you trying to be funny? Well try again, cause you failed this time around.
Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.