Dear Editor,
My niece attends Rusea's High School in Lucea, Hanover. Now, from time to time she has come home later than expected, and when asked the reason for this her response is she had detention. This has been happening more frequently and each time we ask her if it was something she had done, her response is always "no, it's just one girl or one boy, but the entire class is being punished for it".
My brother visited the school and spoke with the teacher because it was getting out of hand. He was told she is in a "bad class" and they cannot just single out a troublemaker; so the good ones stay along with the bad.
I am all for punishment, but this is foolishness. My niece is 13 years old in the 7th grade and she lives in Montego Bay, which is 22.7 miles away from school. The safest transportation is the school bus and when she is detained that leaves her at school.
Over the last year there have been numerous news reports of young girls, ages 13 and 14, being raped, kidnapped, murdered. So God forbid if this happens to her because of this foolishness. What will they tell us, then? Sorry?
This evening she came home to say that next week Tuesday the class has detention to write 500 lines after school. When asked why, it's the same response. What are we to do?
Concerned Aunt
St James
slimm1127@yahoo.com
School detention danger
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My niece attends Rusea's High School in Lucea, Hanover. Now, from time to time she has come home later than expected, and when asked the reason for this her response is she had detention. This has been happening more frequently and each time we ask her if it was something she had done, her response is always "no, it's just one girl or one boy, but the entire class is being punished for it".
My brother visited the school and spoke with the teacher because it was getting out of hand. He was told she is in a "bad class" and they cannot just single out a troublemaker; so the good ones stay along with the bad.
I am all for punishment, but this is foolishness. My niece is 13 years old in the 7th grade and she lives in Montego Bay, which is 22.7 miles away from school. The safest transportation is the school bus and when she is detained that leaves her at school.
Over the last year there have been numerous news reports of young girls, ages 13 and 14, being raped, kidnapped, murdered. So God forbid if this happens to her because of this foolishness. What will they tell us, then? Sorry?
This evening she came home to say that next week Tuesday the class has detention to write 500 lines after school. When asked why, it's the same response. What are we to do?
Concerned Aunt
St James
slimm1127@yahoo.com
School detention danger
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