Bold moves

Guidance counsellor Cyrilene Willoughby said she has noticed a difference in attitude among mainly fifth form students. (Lennox Devonish)

By Barry Alleyne | Thu, July 19, 2012 - 12:10 AM

Fifth form students at the Alexandra School have become bolder since industrial action at the St Peter school.

So bold, they have no problem with openly challenging the same senior teachers who withdrew their labour from the school in January, its guidance counsellor told a commission of inquiry yesterday.

Cyrilene Willoughby said since January, students continue to challenge staff as if they believe they are answerable only to principal Jeff Broomes.

“Their actions towards the senior staff was as if thinking when we [the students] were here and ready to work, you [senior staff] were not, and we aren’t ready now.

“They seemed to feel they would answer only to the principal, how and when they felt like it.”

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Posted by Payel Garcia 10 months, 1 week ago: Scapegoating seems to the order at Alexandra. Those teachers need to stop denying they are not part of the problem.

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Posted by Pan Wallie 10 months, 1 week ago: Obviously. The Ministry should have envisaged that the longer confusion prevailed, the more it would effect the students to the extent that eventually loyalties on the one hand, disrespect on the other, would come into play.