A regrettable stand taken by this head mistress

Oct 07, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,

It is with absolute disgust to have read that the head mistress of Queen’s College (QC), Ms. Friedel Isaacs’ refusal to have the QC flag flown at half mast following the brutal death of one of it’s students, Ms. Neesa Lalita Gopaul.
As quoted in one of our daily newspapers “the head mistress, Friedel Isaacs, who is determined that the student’s death not be linked to the school”. How crass and insensitive to such a statement!
Of course Neesa was linked to her school, she was a student of her school, a good student by all reports, and it seems that she was both popular with her peers and her teachers.
Not to have a request by Neesa’s fellow students and teachers to have the flag flown at half mast shows a lack of human dignity, insensitivity and human decency.
Let me remind Ms. Isaacs that the Queen of England and The House of Windsor also disassociated themselves from the tragic death of Princess Diana, and refused to let The House of Windor’s flag flown at half mast on Buckingham Palace.
Wrong move!
The British public mobilised and rallied outside Buckingham palace for days demanding that the flag be flown at half mast. I was there and sensed the British anger at this repulsive stance and it was palpable that if the flag from the House of Windsor was not going to be flown at half mast, the British would have stormed the gates of Buckingham Palace.
The House of Windsor relented. Princess Diana became “The People’s Princess”… the rest is history.
It is regretable that such a stand is being taken by this head mistress, which it appears that this decision was made unilaterally.
The students that went ahead and planted the black flag must be congratulated; it shows that Queen’s College can still produce independent minds, minds that are sensitive to the world belonging to them and not to autocratic decisions.
All is not lost. I hope in these terrible days of domestic violence and child abuse, there are those who are prepared to stand up for their rights.
These students should go ahead and have a vigil, not only for Neesa, but for the number of children that have been brutalised by those who have been entrusted to them.

Deo Persaud

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