Letters

Unpardonable act

THE EDITOR, MADAM:

The students who spat in the teacher's water should not be allowed to be a part of the school system anymore. They have actually willingly abdicated their role as children. Just as the notorious Lee Malvo was treated as an adult, despite been a lad, they should likewise be treated as adults. They did nothing to be sentenced to jail, but they should have no share and part with teachers. The same teacher will have to disseminate knowledge to these viragos; they should be treated as profligate. They have turned themselves into women immediately, just like in the case of pregnancy.

The laws in certain high profile schools are too accommodative to these delinquents. I am a teacher and I wouldn't teach them. I would rather leave the school system and seek some other means of survival. I am not impressed with certain ways the Ministry of Education and certain board of directors and principals deal with certain fundamental issues within the school precinct. There are things which marvel me and make me think twice about the homes which some of these students are coming from. Is there any protective or spiritual guidance being extended to these despicable characters?

If they did that to me, I would have to be restrained and that is the honest truth. Student must learn to know their time and place. Some are definitely lacking in the necessary conduct to be deemed children who will bring the right norms and values, folkways and more ways to the generations to come. Behaviour like this is certainly not immaculate. These students are the sinister ones we will have to deal with when their sojourn in school has ended. So, there is an assurance that at least white collar crime will increase.

In backing the unpardonable act of these girls, Mrs. Tara Abrahams-Clivio of the Jamaica Observer tried to extricate the 'dirty slimes' from what they did by saying she did pranks at school too and that they should be left alone. What poor solution to the problem for a lady I revered so highly. I was no angel at high school but what these girls did was unthinkable.

We are compelled to and must be resolute in our quest to stabilise the spiralling crime wave. Parents have an obligation and must not compromise poor standards to accommodate, and subsequently influence, acts of criminality.

I am, etc.,

Paris Taylor

Greater Portmore

St Catherine

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