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Majority of youth found to be good
7/29/2010
The vast majority of Barbadian youth are positive, well behaved, law abiding citizens, but there is a small section of these youth that can have a major impact on the wider community if steps are not taken to curb their behaviour.
That is the view of Magistrate Faith Marshall-Harris. She was speaking as she delivered opening remarks at the start of an open court session held at the United Nations House yesterday morning to discuss the findings of a study on the emerging critical issues in juvenile justice.
... You would come across children who are determined, even when you try to provide the best circumstances to be a perpetrator, but our analysis this morning would show you that they are actually in the minority, she said.
Using the old adage that one bad apple can spoil the bunch, she lamented that if as a society we do not try to curb certain negatives that are developing, particularly in the school community, then we are not going to do anything good for future generations of children.
It may only be one, it may only be two in the community, but one is enough for us to pay attention. Certainly the court takes that view. Just two or three disruptive children in a classroom, is enough to create havoc for 35 children and there is a knock on effect as the Ministry of Education is only too well aware I am sure ... But the problem is then that the teacher who has been trained to teach an academic subject spends more time trying to deal with disruptive children, for which they are not necessarily trained to cope, they then after a time become frustrated, because they are having difficulty meeting with the thing for which they are there and for which they are trained, and I hear a lot of them are giving up, she said.
With that in mind, she said that efforts will have to employed, to find ways to also deal with the problems being experienced by the teachers. (JRT)
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