Dear Editor,
School administrators have been clamping down on students who are deemed inappropriately attired for school. The Observer on Thursday, September 12, 2013, page 5, showed the photo of a young man sitting on a wall outside Donald Quarrie High School, with a handkerchief covering his face. This brought a mixture of motions within me.
The message: "Go home, your pants are too tight". The caption read, "Are these trousers too tight?" This led me to wonder if we have our priorities straight. Obviously, this young man is of a slim build, and from the photograph it doesn't appear the pants are tight, yet.
When we send home our children from school because pants are too tight, skirts are too short, khakis/tunics are not the right hue, what are we sending them home to do?
What will help? School administrators, parents and children must find a common ground. But, in a society where schools are failing and children are left unattended and unmonitored the devil will surely find work for idle hands.
If these children turn up for school, let them stay at school, find some other means of punishing them; but for heaven's sake, let them go to classes.
Mr Education Minister, Mr School Administrator, it can't be that the only way to punish these children is to deny them entry to school. Why don't we keep them back for detention, children love their freedom, and to detain them is not fun for them at all. Why don't we introduce them to positive role models they can emulate? School administrators, why don't you get in contact with the business people and start a mentorship programme for these young ones? Why don't we get stricter on the parents, after all these children did leave home for school?
Concerned parent and citizen
Why send home the children?
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School administrators have been clamping down on students who are deemed inappropriately attired for school. The Observer on Thursday, September 12, 2013, page 5, showed the photo of a young man sitting on a wall outside Donald Quarrie High School, with a handkerchief covering his face. This brought a mixture of motions within me.
The message: "Go home, your pants are too tight". The caption read, "Are these trousers too tight?" This led me to wonder if we have our priorities straight. Obviously, this young man is of a slim build, and from the photograph it doesn't appear the pants are tight, yet.
When we send home our children from school because pants are too tight, skirts are too short, khakis/tunics are not the right hue, what are we sending them home to do?
What will help? School administrators, parents and children must find a common ground. But, in a society where schools are failing and children are left unattended and unmonitored the devil will surely find work for idle hands.
If these children turn up for school, let them stay at school, find some other means of punishing them; but for heaven's sake, let them go to classes.
Mr Education Minister, Mr School Administrator, it can't be that the only way to punish these children is to deny them entry to school. Why don't we keep them back for detention, children love their freedom, and to detain them is not fun for them at all. Why don't we introduce them to positive role models they can emulate? School administrators, why don't you get in contact with the business people and start a mentorship programme for these young ones? Why don't we get stricter on the parents, after all these children did leave home for school?
Concerned parent and citizen
Why send home the children?
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