00:00Tutor President Crystal Bevin Ash says discipline cannot stop at the school gate.
00:06He warns that sending students home without proper supervision could leave them vulnerable
00:12to deeper delinquency, rather than addressing the behavioural problem at its root.
00:18You don't just send them home.
00:19If they are deviant or they display deviant behaviour, let us have a social programme
00:22where some level of rehabilitation can take place, where you can bring them back to where
00:27we want them.
00:28Because when you send them home, they're going to watch cable TV, they're going on Facebook,
00:32they're going on social media.
00:34And how is that benefiting them?
00:36And when years pass, when they become adults in society, how are they going to provide
00:43or make any input into society?
00:45Will it be productive?
00:46No.
00:46You're breeding and you're cultivating bandits.
00:48That is what it will be.
00:49Additionally, he's questioning the effectiveness of the school-oriented police programme.
00:53Since DCP Junior Benjamin reported increases involving violence, vaping and the use of marijuana
01:01by pupils.
01:03Ash tells the TV6 Morning Edition key education stakeholders were not properly consulted.
01:09Is it working?
01:10Because if you're seeing, you're seeing increases in it.
01:13What is really taking place?
01:14Now, I would reiterate again.
01:16Tuta has never at any point in time received any information from the Ministry of Education,
01:20neither the police service in relation to this particular programme.
01:23We have asked for it.
01:24We have never received anything.
01:25Then, there is the state of the school buildings themselves.
01:29As the new term begins, the association says, at least 15 schools are not fully prepared,
01:35with Malabar among those where repair work was only being carried out yesterday.
01:41He says, government has been too reactive for too long, and now he wants officials to simply
01:48come clean about the delays, rather than offering excuses or sending the public around in circles.
01:55When can you say, listen, all right, I'm the Minister of Education.
01:58We started a little late this year.
02:00I apologize to the National Committee.
02:02We will strive to do better next year.
02:04Let us strive to do better.
02:05I will work together with all my persons, and we will work and make it better next year.
02:09Say that.
02:10Be a man.
02:11But why hide and make it seem as if, well, we did everything how we're supposed to do,
02:15and it took time because, you know, the procurement system.
02:17Oh, gosh, don't give us all of that.
02:19Don't give us, don't you peen on my leg and tell me rain falling, don't do me that.
02:22Nicole M. Romany, TV6 News.
02:26Let us pray with God.
02:29Please
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