School violence is not seasoned

THE EDITOR: To all who may read the  this article and think I must be a die-hard UNC member, guess again! For your information I have lost all hope in the government of this once beloved country and I have absolutely no qualms in saying that I have no political affiliation with any political party. Yes I am fed up! It seems as if Mrs Manning our education minister thinks that this county is inhabited by only fools. How can she make a statement that the imminent Carnival season is to be blamed for the rise in school violence? So am I to believe that since “seasonal occasions” are being blamed for school violence that if there was a lot of school violence in the months of March-April that it would be blamed on the Easter Season? Come on treat us with some respect!

On the front page of the Newsday newspaper (Sat Jan 24, pg 3) Mrs Manning made a statement that “Media won’t let us forget school violence.” School violence is not something that you “forget” and I applaud the media for highlighting such comments that obviously show that we are dealing with an individual who believes in eluding the public in order to hide their incompetence. Also the introduction of “School Wardens” is absolutely preposterous. Is this what the education system has become? A temporary holding cell (aka) jail? I would hate to have to go to school and be greeted with the daunting face of a warden. Thank God my secondary schooling days are over! The days of the “Sweet, TT” are definitely over! On a closing note I would like to ask, “Reshuffle, what reshuffle?”

AMY-LEIGH JAGROOP
Chaguanas