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Students taken to Police Station
Some of the students emerging from the Kitty Police Station after being held almost four hours because a teacher lost her cellular phone.
…after teacher’s phone goes missing
Sixteen students of the Saint Winefride’s Secondary School on Garnett Street, Newtown, were yesterday taken into police custody for over four hours after their class-teacher reported her cellular phone missing while she was teaching.
It was reported that the students who belong to class “Three Joinery” were all present in their respective seats when the teacher, Ms. Violet James, entered and began her regular duties.
The desk which she occupies is said to be of the same nature as the ones that students use and it is located at the front corner of the classroom.
According to one student, the teacher’s cellular phone fell from her person to the ground and he picked it up and took it to her. He said she then placed it on her desk. The boy recounted that the teacher began writing three questions on the chalkboard and told the class “whoever answers the questions correctly will win something”.
Another student told Kaieteur News that James then returned to her desk and sat on a chair for a short while before getting up again to write three more questions which they were also required to answer.
He said “everybody was hurrying to get the answers right to win whatever was the prize so nobody was concentrating to see what happened to her phone.”
This newspaper understands that the incident occurred around 10:00 am, just before classes would end for the “break period”, and when the teacher finally returned to her desk after which she could not locate her cellular phone, she notified the class that they were not to leave.
Another female teacher ventured into the classroom and began searching all of the students and their school bags to locate the missing item, however, this proved futile.
After searching in vain, the class was dismissed for “break” and classes resumed as per normal. When the students were about to leave for lunch, they were told by the other female teacher that they must “hold on and don’t go anywhere because the police are coming. Y’all going to the station”.
One student told Kaieteur News that a police bus came to collect the entire class and take them to the Kitty Police Station where they were continuously being grilled and questioned by a number of ranks.
Some of the boys told this publication that because they were seated the closest to the teacher they were threatened by the police saying “We will lock y’all up. Tell us what happened to the phone”.
One student explained that he was being questioned along with three of his classmates when the police rank sent for another classmate.
When the boy arrived, the officer “butted” him and sent him into another room where he joined some of his classmates.
When Kaieteur News arrived at the Kitty Police Station around 16:00 hrs, a senior officer was heard telling the students, whose parents were present, that “Go back to y’all school.
The Ministry of Education will have to deal with this”.
The children and their parents subsequently left the station with the intention of returning to the school today to “deal with the matter”.
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