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A contentious video is circulating, depicting a teacher physically disciplining a student at the All Saints Secondary School.
The teacher, allegedly the student’s uncle, harshly reprimands the child in front of peers. School regulations, outlined in the Education Act, stress the importance of discipline. An unusual twist emerges as the student’s mother seemingly granted her brother permission to chastise her son publicly.
Captured by a fellow student, the video shows the teacher gripping the boy’s neck, pushing his head against a wall, expressing frustration at the child’s behavior. The disturbing footage, widely shared on social media, features the visibly distressed child pointing out disturbances in the classroom.
Amidst public outcry, the purported mother defended the disciplinary action, citing her son’s disrespect towards his uncle in class. Concerns over the psychological impact on the victim and witnessing students cannot be dismissed.
The Ministry of Education is actively investigating the incident, ensuring appropriate measures are taken.
This event has sparked a broader discourse on effective and humane disciplinary practices within educational institutions, emphasizing the necessity of a secure and supportive learning environment for all students.
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Something is surely wrong with our society , when parents or teachers discipline children with force society thinks it’s wrong and when the children takes the wrong path we still blame parents and teachers .
Well said I honestly only read half of this article because I was so pissed of how they are putting this thing for the teacher/uncle as bad and wrong for the discipline and when the children go wrong they still blame teachers and parents. Y’all too hypocritical. And this news paper is wicked y’all do anything for attention.
There is definitely something so wrong about the Mother giving her brother the victims uncle permission to embarrass and hit his nephew in a classroom filled with this child’s school mates . I’m very upset I don’t agree with any form of physical violence on a child . It’s called get some communication going between the child / Mother / Teacher AKA the uncle and the school principal. Put that child in a different class PLEASE
Amen. Couldn’t have said it any better. I agreed
Well deserved. Once the mother has given permission to her brother to discipline the young man. Why is an investigation needed when the mother had endorsed the action? After all, it was done in public for a reason. We make mountains out of mole hills, much too often. Some children need more effective discipline than others.
@Dave Ray: It is all well and good that the mother granted consent to the uncle to reprimand the child in the public domain but we should not overlook the cliche’ ” It is not what you do but it is how you do it ” There is always a right way & wrong way of doing things…… Things should be done the correct way regardless from whom the endorsement comes from
exactly. who cares if the mother gave permission? now she’s just apart of the abuse going on to the child.
It’s so refreshing to read all these comments in support of the actions by an uncle. This shouldn’t even make news. An uncle by definition is really an extension of the parents – a second father for a child. The reason why the uncle was asked by the mother to intervene was very likely to reel the young boy back in line. It is the old saying a mother would say “me can’t manage he”. So rightfully so, a man was called in to help much like what a father is supposed to do. The article didn’t say the father gave permission so one can only assume he is not in the picture. Never the less, it was out of love that she asked her brother to step in and it is out of love that he did. They news media act like the boy is in intensive care. Leaving a boy to run wild will certainly bring shame to the family. “Train a boy while he is young and hopefully, he will not depart from it when he is older”. One day if he becomes an outstanding man in society we will all look back and praise the mother and uncle for their actions, if he doesn’t, it is adults like the ones who encourage bad behavior by finding time to report this as newsworthy.
I don’t see the problem here. He is his teacher and to go the extra mile, he is his uncle. He is not only a teacher but a guardian. The child who recorded it should be reprimanded. Why are students using cellphones in school? The social media age has just boosted bad behavior.
Students fights an wounding at school, all some say they not of age for punishment for such conduct, now mother gave permission to be dealt with they gonna need investigating lol
Such hypocrites weak leaders an laws
Absolutely Crookencrakers! The laws are too soft. I’d that same boy hurts a student who is related to the publishers of this news media, I wonder if they would have the same energy that they are displaying in this article as if the uncle committed a crime. The uncle is not only a disciplinarian in his family, but that’s the kind of teacher we want in schools. These boys are becoming menaces to society. Soon no one is going to want to be teachers for fear of this kind of reaction. Why should anyone want to put up with this?
When unruly youths become a menace to society we ask where are the parents, couldn’t they have trained their child and administer the necessary discipline.
Y’all so disgusting to try and paint the teacher/uncle as a bad person for the discipline. Our small island needs more parents, uncle, aunts, grandparents and teachers to assist in the discipline of our children at the rate they are going. Because on the path they are going we will lose them quickly. WELL DONE UNCLE/TEACHER I WOULD HAVE DONE IT THE SAME WAY AND EVEN USE A BELT.
Very true Thoughts! Gone are the days when we accept that “it takes a village to raise a child”. When I was growing up I couldn’t be seen by a teacher misbehaving even outside of school hours, on the weekends or even while in street clothes more so if you have on that uniform. Now a teacher who is paid a meager salary is being chastised after being given permission to administer firm discipline. No society can function well without firm men and insightful nurturing women. This mother knew that this boy needed an intervention before it is too late.
We need to stop following the US with this nonsense about psychological impact. The bible itself says in Proverbs 23:14, “Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.” Our society is out of control because our children are out of control… Yes, these same children will be our leaders to tomorrow.
I grew up in the age where beating children was accepted, and I came out great. Yes, some adults take it too far, but on an average, most children are deserving of the licks. Stop confusing “discipline” with “abuse”, they are not the same.
Plus, the mother must know why she gave the teacher/uncle the okay to discipline him– the likely answer is that he is either out of control or stepped out of bounds and deserves it. Women need help to raise children, and this teacher/ uncle is helping her.
If next week this student harms someone now, the narrative will change… and sadly, the media will want to crucify the school system and home system. But frustratingly, when the school and the home system does something about this, they are still being criticized.
Let’s learn to do our own things down here in the Caribbean and stop be negatively influenced by the US culture that is obviously failing them. In that culture, parents can’t discipline their children with licks, and if they do, they can call the cops on their own parents who are feeding and clothing them. Yet when they break the law, its these same cops that will be chasing them with a gun to kill them. Does that makes sense to you? Let’s learn to think for ourselves.
Absolutely! The USA wants the world to adopt to a one size fits all approach to how the rest of the world should live because they consider themselves ‘world power’. We should even go back to hanging and let’s see how these criminals will start to view another person’s life. They still use the electric chair in some states as a form of punishment. States like Texas, yet they are saying it is inhumane to hang people.
I understand that discipline is needed for a child to be raised properly but actions displayed in the video only cause trauma for child and I wouldn’t be surprised if the child becomes a violent individual. You as a parent should discipline your child at home so they don’t act out at school or anywhere else, not having relatives or others assaulting your child in a public environment and calling it discipline.
Or maybe some of you can’t differentiate assault from discipline
What trauma? The boy deserved what he got. His uncle/teacher and his mother are not mad. This boy is probably out of control and exhibit bad behaviour in the class room and the mother can’t control him. Some students today are out of control running around with cutlass and knives. This embarrassment before the class should teach him how to behave, and the rest of the students will learn a lesson. Glad it is a relative as if not the parents would be all over the place saying all kinds of things about the teacher. Hope this will keep him out of jail.
A lot of the problems we have today with young people are a result of lack of discipline. At best he had no broken bones.
Proverbs 22:15 (KJV)
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. No way a rod of correction can be applied without some form of force to drive it FAR away.
Proverbs 22:15 (KJV)
Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; But the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. No way a rod of correction can be applied without some form of force to drive it FAR away. Spear nit the rod and spoil the child
Seems more like a family issue oppose to a student teacher issue … he’s probably doing all of that because it’s his nephew and not a random student.:: they should keep their family business at home tho
@ Lenny H
Thank you!!!
Let us continue the nonsense and see if we will not have to build more prisons. And, sadly, it’s a child that looks like us, not a Syrian or Chinese. Maybe no father in the home, no respect for mommy or family, and I would bet my last dollar that this child is academically challenged. Wasn’t it school aged boys with cutlasses during the Christmas morning street jam? Wasn’t it school aged black youths who allegedly raped the woman on Frairs Hill Road? You are dammed if you do and dammed if you don’t. Teacher/Uncle, I salute you.
How about the psychological impact of not getting any discipline? The boy will be fine. He will never try that again.
I cannot conclude this was not appropriate or was appropriate until more evidence is had.
Especially this was a relative, it is more difficult to say this action as described is not appropriate for some wrongs of the young man. But I would need more to determine.
Sometimes when we were young, we did something that we wish our parents did not know and simply have that relative discipline us. Sometimes that young person may become aggressive and had to be show who really is the adult.
I am against abuse but abuse cannot be determined without adequate facts.
As the expert in this area, this is not sufficient to say abuse occurred. I need more credible evidence.
There are Sometimes actions like this may be appropriate and justified. Especially in times like this. High crime rates in youth and community.
I do hope this was one of those appropriate and justified discipline.
Why don’t the government start with its POLICE FORCE 🤔
This is why children are running wild in Antigua and doing so much crime, because nobody want to discipline them. Teachers cannot discipline them and parents are afraid of the children and then society cry how the parents need to held accountable. The parent allowed the teacher/uncle to discipline the child and that’s all. This is not a story or news and it is blown out of context. If the parent gave approval that’s all.
Things cha ge because before children would get disiplin and they would be good kids like I myself and if an elderly beat you ,youcannot hobackandtell yourmother you getting more wife in you ass but now out of hand and order let the uncle do what he is doing he is being disrespectful out of order is time the go back in time
The 15 year old student had cursed out his uncle in class, and challenged him. That is when the teacher got a hold of him. But hands around the neck in an apparent choke hold is not appropriate. Why didn’t use a strap? I’ve noticed a lot of secondary schools have ceased corporal punishment a lot, because of various social workers and therapists advocating to ab end of corporal punishment. However if the parent gives permission then it should be done. What happens if the student is 16 or older and just as big as the teacher 🤔? This can alternate into a full physical fight. I think students 16 and older should be immediately suspended and not allowed to return until the parents come to the school with the students regarding alternate solutions if any. There have already been instances where 16 year old boys and girls got into full physical fights with the teachers, assaulting the teachers. At this point they are permanently suspended from schools.
Straight up ant teacher handle any a my kids like that are u would not even smell that they
We Antiguans need to be careful that we do not follow the “goody two shoes” ways of the “non” discipline approach of the UK.
For 2-3 decades now, these “do gooders” have taken the softly softly approach to discipline in their Primary and Secondary schools. And now years later, the perpetrators of bullying and violence are now normally rewarded with some sort of treat, whilst the victims are left to ponder, recover, and then lick their wounds.
Once the disciplinary horse has bolted, it is way too late to correct!
AS THE BRIXTONIAN SAYING GOES: “SPARE THE SWITCH AND SPOIL DE PICKNEY …”
I guess some of you on here do not believe in “boot camp”, but I firmly believe it works for the majority of kids who end up there.
Cut his arse yes..have no problem with what this teacher did.
There is a thing in the US with Jamaican mothers who have kids in the US, where they will tell the kid that if they don’t straighten up, they will send their butt to Jamaica to get straightened out..so this is right up that alley.
Well done Mom.
Sooooooo many young men 16-20s are robbing people in Antigua left right and center … you can’t even walk the streets in peace … high midday .. night time … it doesn’t matter these young men are terrorizing Antigua … not to mention how they fight with each other … at the hospital everyday with Stan wounds as young as 14 & 15…
Now a man, a teacher , family member is trying to prevent one from going down that path, we are complaining????
Obviously for the mother to give her permission for physical discipline and for the uncle to agree, means that they have tried everything else with the boy and that more than likely was not a first action but a last resort…
Everyone is complaining but think about it … so you want parents and teachers to discipline kids or do you want to be walking home from a long days works and some young, u disciplined punk point a gun in your face ??????
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