WE WANT A NEW SCHOOL

CCNTV6

Senior teacher at the Tobago School for the Deaf, Speech and Language Impaired, Davoren Toppin is calling for the institution to have a new school. Her call comes as the school held a walkathon and breakfast sale today on World Children's day. Elizabeth Williams covered the event.

Transcript

00:00We are on the compound with the Bonnacourt Primary School. It is because that we are

00:05using their wing, which used to be the post-primary centre, that is what we are

00:09using right now to host our children. But we are just asking that we be given a

00:15new school, right, so that more children can come because we actually have a

00:21total of over 20 students on the waiting list, waiting to come into the school, but

00:26we cannot enroll them because we don't have the space. So we are just asking

00:30the Division to consider us, remember us, and we just want a new school.

00:37The words of Special Education Teacher 2 and Senior Teacher at the Tobago School

00:43for the Deaf, Speech and Language Impaired, Davion Toppin, following the

00:48institution's walk in Bonnacourt, Tobago. She said it is time that special

00:53children are treated equally. And for far too long, our school has gone unnoticed

00:59and unrecognized. And we are trying so much to have the children be included

01:05and be treated just as their peers in the regular school. But many times we

01:11notice when we take them out to events and different activities, people will

01:15ask, so what school is this? Ms. Toppin said the students at the school have

01:21been performing well. We want our children to feel included because they

01:25are doing so much. May I just add this, Liz, that we would have competed in the

01:31recent Concluded Junior Heritage Festival, and we would have sent a Queen

01:36and also a Maypole group, right? And the Queen, she's dancing, Miss Naima Dempsey,

01:44she placed second. And our Maypole team, we were fifth out of a total of ten

01:51schools. We were the only special school in that competition.

01:56Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended