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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