Jones tells parents: Leave hostility at the door

Fri, 10/07/2016 - 12:00am

Rather than turning up at the school gate, seemingly looking for a fight, parents should seeks ways in which they can work along with the school, for the benefit for their children.

Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, Ronald Jones suggested the above recently, as he delivered the feature address at a ceremony held at the Blackman and Gollop Primary School in Staple Grove, Christ Church this week, to celebrate the school’s 5th Anniversary.

“Let’s hope that we will see our parents continuing to work with our schools and continue to give the school the best. The school is nothing without parents. The school and parents must work together,” Jones commented.

He added, “Leave the hostility at the door. Before you step on to the premises, leave the hostility. Come and enquire, come and find out. I’ve seen in my own teaching life and even now as a Minister of Education, so many parents who become angry, because they end up being embarrassed.”

“They simply accept the word of the child who is trying to escape something and they come through the doors snorting like the raging bulls in Spain, then to find the truth and then you know what they try to resort to, to try to kill the child in front the school. Of course, no school allows that or should allow that. That’s not discipline, that becomes brutality. However, be reasonable, be fair, know that the teachers and the principals as leaders, are trying to get the best (out of) the children,” the Education Minister remarked. (RSM)

Jones tells parents: Leave hostility at the door

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