Students who flogged teacher, threatened another transferred

Jun 23, 2014 News

– behaviour to be monitored

Education officials have recommended that the students who were involved in the recent acts of misconduct at Wisburg Secondary School in Linden be transferred to another school and placed on disciplinary probation.
According to Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Education, Suelle Findlay Williams, the students who were involved in the violent attack and beating of a teacher at the school have been transferred to another school in the District as part of a disciplinary measure taken against them.
“We take such incidents which involve the use of violence very seriously. We have zero tolerance for such behaviour in schools. It is our priority to ensure that the schools have secure environments which are conducive to learning,” Williams added.
Williams explained that following the incident which took place in April, an investigation was launched at the level of the Regional administration.
“It was based on the investigation that those recommendations were made … In normal circumstances the students could have been expelled but I understand that they are scheduled to write exams and therefore it was decided that they be transferred to another school where their performance will be monitored.”
Residents of Linden raised their concerns after news spread about the beating of a female teacher, by a female student at the Wisburg Secondary School, at Wisroc, Linden.
The female student allegedly flogged the teacher with her own cane, after the staffer tried to intervene in a dispute involving the student’s twin brother, who was allegedly drunk at the time.
Reports indicate that the male student had earlier been imbibing alcoholic beverages with his friends in celebration of his birthday.
A commotion then ensued, in which the male student began ‘firing wild kicks’ and cursing the Deputy Head Teacher and other teachers, after they refused to allow the boy’s sister to give him a bag, which he claimed contained his ‘juker’.
“All the time he firing kicks and a kick connected to Sir Curtis and he threatening Sir that he will kill him,” an eyewitness had reported.
“Then he tell he sister who was looking on and cursing, ‘pass me bag let me get me juker’, and the sister was going to give it to him, and all the while she was cursing that teachers had no right to drag her brother on the ground, but all the teachers were trying to do was take the boy to the Principal’s Office, but he de fighting too much they couldn’t control him. This boy was behaving like he was possessed.
“Well Teacher Roxanne- she is one of those teachers that don’t put up with nonsense—so she told the boy’s sister to go back to her class, but this girl ignored her and continued cursing and was going to force her way past the teacher to give her brother the bag, when teacher Roxanne scrambled the whip from the Deputy and gave her two lashes and told her to go to her class.
But instead, this girl scramble the whip and start beating the teacher, lashing this woman all over she head. Then the teacher managed to pull the whip from her and tried to restrain her, but the girl scramble back the whip, and continued lashing the teacher. By this time the brother rushed towards the teacher too, who then tried to get the rake from the cleaner to defend herself, but by then the other teachers intervened and subdued the two students who were then taken to the Principals Office,” the source added.
The incident was reported to the Wisroc Police Outpost, and the teachers involved in the altercation were advised to submit a report to the Region 10 Education Department.
The incident was just the latest in a string of other episodes of violence against staff at Wisburg Secondary. On February 4, 2013, Michelle Richards, another teacher, had to be rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital Complex, after a table top, which was set as a trap over her classroom door, fell on her head as she attempted to enter her class.
Richards later had a CT-scan done which revealed that she had suffered a fractured skull.
The students who had set the trap were later expelled from the School, while Richards would spend months convalescing. She has since returned to teaching, but at another Secondary School.

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