Ministry tackling school violence The Trinidad Guardian: "Blame the Teachers.
My wife is a teacher. She has a student that comes to school 2 day a week.
When he is there he has no books and he is disruptive to the class.
His step father beats him, his mother neglects him.
He curses the other students.
He steals.
The police wont do anything.
She tries her hardest to get him to be there 5 days a week, and to learn, but he refuses.
She has no support from his parents, the school sysyem, the police or the govt.
One student makes it hard for twenty others to learn.
What can she do?
She is stressed when she comes home.
Now the government is telling her she is a bad teacher.
Give her the resources to make her a better teacher.
She has yet to see a social worker or an officer at her primary school.
Let the primary school teachers know where they can go to get psychologicaland other help for these children.
I hear about incest, child abuse, parents incouraging there children to steal because the police wont arrest them.
The principal knows, yet nothing is done.
Give her the resources and these thing wont happen.
But the government wont.
The easiest way is to blame her and say it's her fault for being a bad teacher."
Monday, February 8, 2010
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