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Two parents of students who attend Carapichaima East and West Schools claim that their children are being bullied - not by students, but by the teachers and principals, and they say, they're not the only ones. The parents believe their boys are being unfairly targeted, and they're calling on the Ministry of Education to intervene. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00The social worker said that the extended suspension that they apply for was not granted, so I
00:05am supposed to be back to school immediately, but when I got to school, the principal said
00:09that she had no word of me coming to school, so I had to sit on 98010.
00:14And I tell you, she was the man from the ministry, she said, and then she said that she had no
00:20confirmation of that, so I had to sit on 98010, and I was on 98010 for two, three days.
00:27This form three student of Karupachyma West Secondary School is in an unusual dilemma.
00:33He wants to go to school, but he's not being allowed.
00:37His mother explains that he was in a physical altercation where he was jumped by six persons
00:43outside the school, resulting in him being stabbed two times.
00:47He's then said to have retaliated, injuring one boy, who is also a student of the school.
00:54When all was said and done, only her son was suspended.
00:57However, since the week of suspension ended back in September, her son has still not been
01:03allowed to return to class.
01:05First, the principal said he could come to school, but he need to be watched.
01:09So the statement I made was, so how are they watching him on 98010?
01:14I'm not spending my money to send my son to school, to sit on 98010, he could stay home
01:17and do that.
01:18I called the principal on the phone.
01:22While I was speaking to the principal on the phone, the principal literally hung up the
01:26phone on me.
01:28She did not want to hear what I had was to say, and from since the 16th of September
01:32till now, my son has been home.
01:34I have no person and authority stating or give me a document that my son's supposed
01:42to be home.
01:43So to me as a parent, I would send my child to school because the last information I got
01:48was he was supposed to be in school.
01:50Now the principal said, get written documents that he could come to school.
01:53How again, that if three times I went to the militia and I cannot see the supervisor for
01:58secondary school.
01:59The young boy says he's in good academic standing and he's hurt and confused.
02:06I mean, I want to go back out to school, but you know, it's kind of hard at the end of
02:10the day because of all kinds of things.
02:12What kind of grades do you get?
02:15You know, 70s, 80s, occasionally 90s, you know, when you're actually trying to, you
02:20have this.
02:21Over at Karapachima East Secondary School, another mother is also engaged in a battle
02:27with the school administration over her son.
02:30She says he has been suspended three times, which now puts him on the path to expulsion.
02:36But she contends the suspensions were mostly unwarranted.
02:41They say that they suspend him for breaking class, right, and for twerking in front of
02:45the class.
02:46Right.
02:47They had no, they had no teacher.
02:49So all of them were like pacing the hall, who in the class, who out of the class and
02:53all this kind of thing.
02:55Right.
02:56They had no teacher at that time.
02:57Right.
02:58She said she heard laughter and thing in the other class next to her.
03:02When she came out now, he was twerking because he liked to be playing, playing, playing.
03:07He's a child.
03:08The mother acknowledges that her son is a bit of a class clown, but says the situation
03:13has now come to a point where the teachers are trying to frame him so as to get him expelled.
03:19A teacher, right, told the whole Form 1 class to go and report, right, and to say that he
03:29taxing students.
03:31So one young man up and say, well, sir, that is not true.
03:35He never taxed nobody.
03:36The teacher say, you is the family, Ms. Gaspidolli.
03:41Please look into this situation with these teachers and principal, bullying these children.
03:45That's the form of bullying.
03:46All the bullying the children and them to write report, you're bullying the boy taking
03:50out with the child money just, just for you to react.
03:52Right.
03:53Plenty of the suspension and not suspendable.
03:57Children can be placed on other warnings and watch.
04:02All the sending children home and all the send these children home.
04:05I want to have a home for these children to be doing.
04:08And then I don't want to say too much.
04:09Our young people in crime.
04:11TV6 News contacted the minister of education on both matters.
04:16The minister is advising parents with students in such situations to first attempt to address
04:21the matter with the principal, feeling which parents should then visit the respective education
04:26district office and speak with the school supervisor.
04:31Nevertheless, the minister has committed to looking into the two matters highlighted in
04:36this story.
04:37Renessa Cutting, TV6 News.
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