the lunacy posted as 'conversation' starters on this BB by PPP antiman is something to behold

The teacher should be suspended pending an investigation. Embarrassing a student at that age is a prescription to death. Thankfully, the parents get a break on the cause of him taken his life, presumably from the victim's class mates.

Arré mai, yuji. If the teacher who "embarrassed" the boy is an East Indian, do you still want the PNC to take action against him/her?

 

Correct.

 

otherwise the PNC would have arrested the parents to save face.

I know this question is not for me, but I am obliged to say the I wouldn't put race above a child's death. The method of discipline is totally wrong. The teachers today are not trained to deal with child's psychology like the old days.

My "old days" are older than your old days. What young Joshua Beepat experienced at the hands of his teachers is mild compared to what my generation and earlier pupils had to go through.

Some of us had to drop our short pants and bend over a desk in front of the whole class to take 6 brutally stinging lashes from male and female, Indo and Afro teachers.

Even at Central High School when I was in Form 2B, a Portuguese teacher called Miss Farnum put me one morning to stand on the desk with folded arms because I failed to do homework. Before the period ended I fainted and some classmates caught me before I hit the floor. Miss Farnum asked another teacher named Mr Samah to drive me home immediately.

I couldn't complain to my guardian about what Miss Farnum did because I would have got a whipping at home too. And then, if my guardian had passed on the news to my parents, I would have suffered yet another whipping. Triple whammy.

Despite such practices by teachers in the 1960s and earlier, never did a pupil commit suicide.

Suicide seems to be a PPP thing, it started during their term in office.

Most of what you experienced in school, myself and others on GNI can attest to the same experience. I had to kneel down on two drinks cork on the egged side for hours as punishment, but it wasn't embarrassing because it happens to the entire class one time or another. Girls usually get benching like boys.

That's the point. Other kids might laugh you today but tomorrow their turn for licks would come. Everyone waited his/her turn to be embarrassed by Miss or Sir. We all took it in stride and have lived to tell the tale.

Reflecting on my younger days as students,thoughts of

suicide never comes to our mind,i was 15 yrs in Form 3,

got my dose of six lashes bending over on the desk in

front of the class,the students were quiet as a mouse

any taunting by any of  the class students would have

resulted getting the same punishment.

 

 

 

 

When I was given the chance of bending over a chair for my lashes, that's the day I walked out of East Ruimveldt Sec after telling Mr Tate to go do it to himself. That prick was going to whip me in front of two women (parents)

 

Suh you was a wutliss bhai,you had lot a courage.

Did something similar at Brickdam (StMary's) with bald head Fidel, he got threatened by my older bro' he warned Fidel if he ever did his usual to me..hitting on the back with a cane, he'd receive a sound thrashing, that man never touched me.That banna was a mad man with a cane.