Indisciplined children must be punished

THE EDITOR: The indisciplined school children who believe that education is of no use to them and decide to disturb ambitious children from being educated must feel the full brunt of the law. These children, believing that education is no use when they can find the socially offered job whether they are educated or not, begin their criminal education in school attacking teachers, and also their fellow students. This is unacceptable, and steps must be taken to punish these unambitious pupils who consider the school a place to lime, and carry on their illegal behaviour.

Many parents encourage their children to become hooligans by setting the wrong examples because they themselves are indisciplined, and need to be trained intellectually and socially. In the Newsday  —November 14 — we see where a mother and grandmother attacked and beat a school principal in a Government primary school for scolding their child. This is where the criminology begins within the home.

When these badly-behaved children are found to be causing any disturbance in school they are to be placed in a dark cell in the police station for two days to be fed with bread and water according to the nature of the offence, but if the offence is more serious they are to face one week in that dark cell. It may look harsh or inhumane, but this is the way to instill fear into these misfits, and to show the determination of the authorities to stamp out the unsavoury behaviour of unambitious students. There are certain people who complain about underachievers in education, but these are the children who do not care about education, but exhibit their bad john attitude in school then there are those who come first in the world in certain subjects, because they are very ambitious, and go to school to learn and not waste their precious time as some others.

The parents who encourage their children to be rude to their teachers should also be sent to jail under the same circumstances. The law must find a way to stop the violence in schools, and the Ministry of Education must work hand in hand with the police to stamp out hooliganism in all the schools in Trinidad before it’s too late.

HORACE DESORMEAUX
Maraval