Education Minister Andrew Holness is scheduled to visit
two Manchester
schools Friday where teachers have been up in arms following physical attacks
on their colleagues.
Mr. Holness will be heading to Garlogie Primary and Junior High and Christiana High.
Classes at Christiana High have been disrupted since Wednesday following an altercation involving the Vice Principal and two female students.
Teachers at Gargolie have been on edge after a male teacher was attacked by a group of men on the school compound last month.
The men, who were allegedly acting in defence of a grade nine student who was disciplined, stabbed, chopped and severely beat the teacher.
In the meantime, the Education Minister says a system is now in place for teachers to report all disruptions at schools.
"And we have prepared the document, we have prepared the reporting sheet we are now developing the computer programme that will help to coallate and analyse information because what we want to see is the trend of disruption to inform how we intervene that is what we want to do," said Mr. Holness.
And Principal of Christiana High John Beckford is calling for an urgent amendment to the Education Code.
He says the regulations should be changed to make it easier for school administrators to remove students who show anti-social behaviour.
Mr. Beckford says a revision of the Code would give principals greater autonomy over their schools.
"How they implement rules and regulations to exclude certain students and certainly this is the reason why for a number of years now at principals' meetings we have asked the Ministry to increase the number of alternative schools, this is over due by many years," said Mr. Beckford.
Mr. Holness will be heading to Garlogie Primary and Junior High and Christiana High.
Classes at Christiana High have been disrupted since Wednesday following an altercation involving the Vice Principal and two female students.
Teachers at Gargolie have been on edge after a male teacher was attacked by a group of men on the school compound last month.
The men, who were allegedly acting in defence of a grade nine student who was disciplined, stabbed, chopped and severely beat the teacher.
In the meantime, the Education Minister says a system is now in place for teachers to report all disruptions at schools.
"And we have prepared the document, we have prepared the reporting sheet we are now developing the computer programme that will help to coallate and analyse information because what we want to see is the trend of disruption to inform how we intervene that is what we want to do," said Mr. Holness.
And Principal of Christiana High John Beckford is calling for an urgent amendment to the Education Code.
He says the regulations should be changed to make it easier for school administrators to remove students who show anti-social behaviour.
Mr. Beckford says a revision of the Code would give principals greater autonomy over their schools.
"How they implement rules and regulations to exclude certain students and certainly this is the reason why for a number of years now at principals' meetings we have asked the Ministry to increase the number of alternative schools, this is over due by many years," said Mr. Beckford.
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