Probe into girl choking schoolmate

Minister of Education Anthony Garcia has launched another investigation into yet another video of school violence, this time at a Port of Spain primary school.

Newsday spoke to Garcia yesterday who said that he has seen the three-minute long video and has instructed the Chief Education Officer Harrylal Seecharan to carry out a probe into the matter. He said that he is expected to review the results of the investigation sometime today when he visits his office and he gave his reassurance that the Ministry continues to place all incidents of violence and indiscipline as top priority.

“We are working together with the school supervisors to find out which school, the uniform will be able to identify the school so we are hoping by tomorrow morning when I go to office I will get a first hand review of all the information that is necessary. We will be talking to the principal and even those students if they are no longer attending the school, we will get a contact for them and find out where they are and we are going to deal with this very seriously.”

He added that while there has been an increasing number of videos depicting school violence on social media, he maintained the Ministry has worked hand in hand with teachers to yield long-lasting results and urged teachers to partner with parents and the Ministry as they attempt to further minimise incidents of school violence.

“We have been able to secure tremendous successes where insdiscipline and violence in our schools are concerned. From the empirical data that is available to us, it shows that the incidence of indiscipline and violence in our schools have been on the decrease.”

Garcia said that he intends to speak to the parents of the girls involved and the girls themselves before he makes a decision on what should be done. The three-minute long video which surfaced on social media over the weekend, shows two girls believed to be students of the Bethlehem Girls’ RC School beating and choking one of there classmates.

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