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Buxton CHS is in a rundown state and urgently needs intervention

Jun 24, 2008 News

DEAR EDITOR,
I read in Kaieteur News last Sunday an article by Adam Harris – “When fathers condemn their sons to criminality.”

While I agree with his main point about fathers abandoning their responsibilities to their children, I reflected that these children also spend about 8- 10 hours at school, Monday to Friday. So we must ask about that forming environment, and whether it is one for good or evil.

I happen to have recently visited the Buxton Community High School, and it is my humble judgment that what the school is basically doing is sustaining a pool of good young men and women for future recruitment into criminality.

The school is in a terribly rundown condition, and the workshop and the home-economics departments are in dire need of materiel and tools.

How can a child, even coming from a good and decent home, not feel a sense of hopelessness? There is even no where to recreate, no playing field!! And hence that child becomes available for someone who offers adventure and money, and perhaps status.

The Ministry of Education should send someone to look at this facility, and either do something to improve its capacity, to give purpose to those attending, or else close it altogether, as it will continue to be a source of young guns for the market.

We have a responsibility to these youngsters to give them an opportunity to discover their talent and develop same.

We should not wait until there are replacements for those who have died and then act; this would be too late, as I am sure other centres like the Buxton Community High exist in other villages.
Malcolm Rodrigues S. J.

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