St. Lucia’s Training Minister requires finish to pupil loitering following stabbing incident

St. Lucia’s Training Minister Shawn Edward is urging mother and father to be a part of the multi-pronged method to curbing the perennial subject of pupil loitering following a stabbing incident involving college students within the metropolis’s heart.

“If faculty is dismissed at 3:00 p.m., the coed must be house by 4:30; and accountable to the father or mother if they don’t seem to be,” he stated.

“There are too many college students loitering the streets and also you see some at 7:00 p.m. at evening nonetheless carrying their faculty uniforms. That is what occurs when the social material of society begins to disintegrate,” Edward stated.

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Edward stated neither the Ministry of Training nor the minister can singlehandedly remedy the issue.

“This requires a multipronged method. Principals have a task, ministry officers have a task, the police they too have a task, and finally the mother and father have a task,” he stated, urging mother and father to take better duty for his or her kids’s whereabouts.

Final month, Shawn Edward referred to an incident involving college students stabbing one another with “lengthy knives” however didn’t go into particulars.

Final week, police stated they’d briefly detained 17 college students for possession of medicine and weapons within the classroom.

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