Having learned to behave like animals from parents, politicians, police and pastors, Bahamian high school students are a bomb waiting to explode.\u00a0 And Minister of Education Desmond Bannister got a taste of that yesterday.<\/p>\n
Just as senior police officers, school administrators and the minister of Education were set to go on a walkabout, the area near C V Bethel High School turned into a war zone.<\/p>\n
A riot broke out between warring gangs with students and other thugs throwing rocks and one student brandishing a gun.<\/p>\n
After hearing the reports of violence just two weeks after the school year started, Minister of Education Desmond Bannister took a hands-on approach. He wanted to see firsthand how the behaviour of students degraded once left the school campus.<\/p>\n
Stationing himself at a plaza near C V Bethel High School, the Minister quickly got a taste of trouble as a swarm of students descended upon the plaza. Within minutes, young men, not in school uniforms, started to clash with students from a nearby private school.<\/p>\n
Three people were arrested.<\/p>\n
Thinking ahead, school administrators decided this year to station “sentries” at the plaza with Senior masters patrolling the area every day until 4:00pm, admonishing students on their behaviour and encouraging them to go home.<\/p>\n
Still, the release of over 1,400 students, at the same time, in a concentrated area can lead to confrontations, especially as kids leave the discipline of school and enter a volatile after school environment.<\/p>\n
Eulease Beneby, C V Bethel principal, wants a police presence in the area immediately after school lets out.\u00a0 Business owners, parents and residents in the area agree.<\/p>\n
Following the shooting of Rashad Rolle, an eighth grade T A Thompson student, on Monday, community members in the area voiced concern that the shooting signaled an escalation of violence between and against students.<\/p>\n
The terrible examples set by irresponsible parents, corrupt politicians, crooked cops and perverted pastors has taken its toll on Bahamian youth.<\/p>\n
We are raising a generation of undisciplined animals who are responsible for the future of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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