New behaviour management plan to hit schools this term
A new disciplinary regime is expected to be rolled out at secondary schools this term, Education Minister Sharie deCastro has revealed.
The Minister told reporters recently that secondary school teachers were trained last October on positive behaviour management as the ministry seeks to reimagine the way it approaches the conduct of students.
“Secondary schools were charged with developing a positive behaviour management plan for their campuses and implementation of these plans should begin this term,” deCastro said.
Mandatory ID cards
She explained that in order to support this and other initiatives, the ministry has re-instituted the mandatory use of identification cards for students at the secondary level.
“Elmore Stoutt High School students and teachers now have ID cards that will be used for identification purposes, and to take attendance,” minister deCastro stated. “All secondary schools and teachers will eventually also have these cards.”
Minister deCastro further noted that the update on schools’ discipline policy is being worked on by the government in addition to other government policy revisions.
Discipline among high school students has been a serious concern for years, with fights becoming a commonplace occurrence, both on and off campus in the past.
That concern reportedly prompted the construction of the now-controversial wall around the perimeter of the school.
With students at all levels of the school now back at the ESHS Lower Estate campus for all-day learning at the same time, it remains to be seen whether the new regime will prove to be an effective deterrent to poor behaviour.
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needs to start home…it is the parents that need to do their job
She acting like the school principal. Be a minister. Bring some real
policies to improve the education system. The NDP did a good job in education. Build on it.
Somebody gonna make big money making those ID cards
We need to focus more on technical programs, let’s teach kids how to be plumbers, carpenters, electricians etc those are jobs that can provide them with a decent living even if they don’t go to college
At lest she is a step above sl**anda
…for education in this place is the NDP
People say NDP did a good job. That is true. But we have a problem giving credit where it is due. Myron Walwyn did a great job with education under the NDP period.
Amen to that, but sadly it is not happening and it is very sad. It appears that some parents have stopped parenting?
Two young boys on scooters smashed into my vehicle on Friday afternoon and just drove off laughing.
Parents need to play a role in their children lives. If you really look at the children who act out and get in trouble, you will see that majority of their parents have no time for them. Also,the BVI needs a boot camp or some kind of facility where kids can go.
Mr.Stoutt was the best thing that happeded to the High School and when he retired, everything went downhill. But, I pray and hope that one day the education system will be better.
Myron needs to be held accountable for what he did to destroy education especially for all the health hazard and education decay and demoralization in education of our children and teachers at ESHS leaving them in moldy facilities for years after Irma just to give a political supporter more riches.
To give NDP all the credit for the advancement of education in the BVI is mere political and not factual. Let’s stop trying to resurrect and give a man that will always be remembered as the one who build a wall rather than repairing and constructing proper educational facilities and systems.
Those are the opportunities VISTS provides.
sole issue i had with the Mr. Walwyn is his none payment of increments to teachers. Didn’t he and the party not promise them?Here were are still struggling, but all the politicians current and former have their raises, allowances and perks being paid to them during and after service.
Now what is caring about the people is that?
Discipline has been a challenge and an embarrassment within our society. I applaud the minister for her efforts and wish the schools much success. Everything can’t be done at once. As much as persons like to praise Myron, he wasn’t that great and made many mistakes along the way as well as he had some successes. We need to look at the bigger picture, which is, ‘what benefits our children and society’. It’s time to stop making everything political!
None of these education ministers could walk in Walwyn’s shoes and anybody with an understanding of education will admit that. Trying to re-write history by telling lies might satisfy some egos but we all know it is false information. Give credit where it is due. He was heads and shoulders above Fahie, Wheatley and now Decastro. No comparison whatsoever.
Stop making excuses for bad behavior. THAT is the problem with our children.
Myron could pay teachers increment? Can teachers get their increments separate from the rest of the civil service? Did the civil servants get their increments from this government after three and half years?
Don’t show the meanness in yo now. Truth is the entire civil servants was on my mind, they the entire entity is always mentioned when this issue is brought up, fyi. Just that this one time teachers were the focus, but not at the exclusion of our brothers and sisters of the civil service. Tat is fact. We all our brothers keepers. WE all have been treated very badly by our governments.
is saying )> ah pO-in it 2 aryO nOw ) , it’s either CARD or stay out D yarD ( I hope she got a black belt in the martial arts
@Wiseup. You right i’ts time.
Sherri was always a rude girl now she here trying to play saviour to these kids⅘
I strongly agree with your views. It is not every child wants to attend College or University after graduating High School. But of course they want to be employed in trades or professions that they have knowledge or was trained in. I can’t understand why the High Schools don’t have within their curriculums Trade Courses for students in their Junior and Senior years. The more we traverse into the future, it seems the further backward we are being driven.
Build on an incomplete wall surrounding resource deficient classrooms?
Build on unstable foundations and warped structures?
Build on obsolete or late technologies?
Build on empty promises?
Build on administrative manipulation?
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Some of the teachers are very rude and disrespectful to the students as well. Two wrong can’t make a right. Sometimes i feel they just there for the paycheck