and we expect the kids to be better? :uh:

Brawl At Primary School
A fight at the C. W. Sawyer Primary School on Monday left nerves frayed and created new concerns about security at schools after a parent whose children are wards of the state reportedly showed up attempting to take away her son who is a grade one student at the school.

Police last night confirmed reports called in by teachers that a mother of a first-grader attacked the school’s principal, Loraine Lightbourne, after she was driven onto the campus by an unidentified man.

One teacher claimed that the woman had been hiding in the vehicle.

The woman apparently showed up at the school after she left the Carmichael Primary School where she was able to get two of her children.

According to one teacher at C. W. Sawyer, the mother went to the grade one class and told the teacher that an official in the office gave her permission to take her child, but the teacher, who became suspicious, refused to turn the child over, but said she needed to go to the office.

At the office, the mother reportedly tried to grab the child and when the principal became aware of what was going on, she too tried to protect the child from being taken away by the mother, one teacher told The Bahama Journal.

The teacher claimed that it was at this time that the mother grabbed the principal and lifted her off her feet. It apparently resulted in a teacher, who is a police reservist, hitting the mother, which resulted in an all-out brawl.

Eyewitnesses said teachers were particularly concerned as the principal is suffering from a medical condition.

Several teachers reportedly became involved in the fight and reported that the woman was hard to control. One teacher said there was a lot of punching and kicking during the whole ordeal.

Police eventually arrived on the scene and took the parent away.

All three of her children were reportedly back at the Nazareth Centre last night.

The matter was reported to the Grove police station where Assistant Superintendent Glenroy McKenzie said police have the mother in custody.

He assured that a full investigation into the matter will take place

Police did not release the identity of the parent involved in the altercation.

A teacher said some students witnessed the ordeal, which has left "a very bad impression".

"Some children already feel that their parents run the school, so it reinforced that idea," the teacher said. "It has a very bad negative effect."

"Some children already feel that their parents run the school, so it reinforced that idea," the teacher said. "It has a very bad negative effect."

and this is the problem, all the children has to do is call their jungalist mommy or daddy if they dont like how teacher disciplined them so they can beat up the teacher if they cant beat them, themselves. boy what is wrong with our educational system? Where is the voice of reason in parents? Parents run children not the other way around!
bring back the switch indeed!

and this is the problem, all the children has to do is call their jungalist mommy or daddy if they dont like how teacher disciplined them so they can beat up the teacher if they cant beat them, themselves. boy what is wrong with our educational system? Where is the voice of reason in parents? Parents run children not the other way around!
bring back the switch indeed!

more than the education system, tia, its the mentality of US as a people! what have we come to? where do parents get off at going to the school to 'row' and 'fight' the teacher?! when at school, the child is no longer in the parents responsibility!

Hi!

I am new here! I think that anyone assaulting a teacher should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. You are correct in saying that, this is what is worng with Bahamian society. Children do feel like their teachers can't 'do them anything" and if they need to, they well get their parents to beat up the teacher or at least threaten them.

Teachers provide the most valuble service to our community and should be protected from such assualt and confrontations by law, since societal sentiment no longer mandates the respect once afforded them.

I hope they throw the book at her, make an example of her. I am sure there are other factors effecting her behaviour, but we can not let parents beleive that they can 'wild-out' on school staff with no consequences.


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its not the Bahamian society, or US on a whole, really, its the jungelist dem that is the problem, not every bahamian is a jungelist, yet :shaky:

I beg to differ. It is a sociaetal problem, I amnot implying that every Bahamian parents acts on this manner, however, children who grow up without a parental example that respects authority, become adults who don;t respect authority. The implications of that pracitse is felt by the Bahamian public at large.

So while it may the junglist dem dat guilty of dis, da rest a we, hadee deal with dey with all da drama dey is cause.

Sadly enough, this isn't the first time that I have heard of such instances. I have personally withnessed situations similar to this one happing before. I remember the days when I was a kid and I got spanked by some random person down the street, if I went home crying, I would get spanked again. Now, if I even spank my little cousin for doing something obviously wrong, I am in hot water. The society that we once lived in has changed drastically. I guess when you live in a country where a kid is spanked at school and he dies as a result, parents get a little more protective. I am in no way condoning what happened there, I am just saying that I can appreciate why society is changing and moving away from that type of view.

In this isolated event, I think that parent is just plain crazy. I appluad those teachers that tried to stop her also. I know that personally, if I see a parent lift the principal off the ground, I would duck and cover. Unless the prinicipal is very tiny indeed, this must have been one enraged parent. She must have transformed into the Incredible Hulk.

In this isolated event, I think that parent is just plain crazy. I appluad those teachers that tried to stop her also. I know that personally, if I see a parent lift the principal off the ground, I would duck and cover. Unless the prinicipal is very tiny indeed, this must have been one enraged parent. She must have transformed into the Incredible Hulk.


maybe she was on drugs?

maybe she was on drugs?


What drugs? Like steroids? That is the only way I can understand her lifting a grown woman off the ground. Was this principle on the midget scale?

Sadly enough, this isn't the first time that I have heard of such instances. I have personally withnessed situations similar to this one happing before. I remember the days when I was a kid and I got spanked by some random person down the street, if I went home crying, I would get spanked again. Now, if I even spank my little cousin for doing something obviously wrong, I am in hot water. The society that we once lived in has changed drastically. I guess when you live in a country where a kid is spanked at school and he dies as a result, parents get a little more protective. I am in no way condoning what happened there, I am just saying that I can appreciate why society is changing and moving away from that type of view.
In this isolated event, I think that parent is just plain crazy. I appluad those teachers that tried to stop her also. I know that personally, if I see a parent lift the principal off the ground, I would duck and cover. Unless the prinicipal is very tiny indeed, this must have been one enraged parent. She must have transformed into the Incredible Hulk.


i get what ur sayin finkeomo but i am all for the spankin up of rude tales. it makes us better people. my mom had a rule, as long as they used a belt or the hand strategically on the butt she was cool with it. and u were right how many time did i get spanked at school and didnt say a word to my mum.