i see nothing wrong with it it to go and look decent and as long as u love your school u will wear the uniform with pride u feel the one u have put down can still fit u mine cant   how about go to church with all your arm out and head uncover

I am in total agreement.  I consider it total disrespect when one takes a school uniform and subject it to the kind of conduct that goes on at those fetes.  Total disrespect.  What’s sad is that those individuals see nothing wrong with it.

this what bothing me u see what the bible said not to do i see people r doing people dont care no more but it have to come from who leading the country i see in my work place its bring back master getting the same slave to beat up one another and big men r doing it all these thing want looking into i am please with mr jones look around and u will see what people r doing to bring down this country ....so that mr jones

Only in Barbados….The barbadian society is quickly becoming a society without any morale…School uniforms must at all times be respected…It is sickening and shows lack of pride…the organisers of such fetes should be ashamed

Life is too short, fix the education system with an infusion of creativity and quit trying to find scapegoats.  Surely Mr. Minister there are other pressing matters which need your attention…THE ECONOMY!!!!

We are late as usual, trying to close the barn door long after the horse has bolted. At the expense of modernisation and liberalisation our children, our tomorrow leaders have no respect for pride, law or order. Most of them seem not to understand the importance of respecting themselves. As soon as we reached home, we had undress. Our mother reminded that the uniforrm ‘belonged to the school’ and was to be respected. Schools had rules to that there should be no congregation in Bridgetown. In fact the only students to traverse Bridgetown were those connecting by bus at the Lower Green terminal and that commanded a STRAIGHT walk down Broad Street. Entry to any Bridgetown store in uniform could only occur with permission of the Headteacher. The fetes mentioned here were not even a dream at the time. How times have changed!

It is indeed shameful that after 44 years of independance one has to plead with school children to respect and take pride in their school uniform i would not be surprised that in the not too distant future we will be pleading with many to respect our national flag our value system has gone down the gutter our leaders need to speak out on these issues.

“SCHOOL UNIFORMS are sacred…”? This is ludicrous! But I suppose that there are some among the establishment in the Barbadian education system who see school uniforms in the same way that the RBPF or the BDF views “any item of military kit”. Are we worried that someone might impersonate a student?Exactly what is the school uniform a symbol of? Some might see it as a symbol of the austere and regimented Barbadian education system. The “back-to-school fetes” are a fun way for graduates to get together with friends, re-unite with former classmates or colleagues from other schools who share a common experience and still hold a fondness for their alma mater with which they identify in spite of the experience. It’s a clever theme for a fete: a celebration of school days in Barbados. There is no mockery intended.

The Wadadah Back to school fetes have been going on for several years now. Why is he now being so vocal about the whole issue? I do not condone the fetes, personally i think it is out of place. If it was not a problem when he assumed office don’t see why he would be so offended by it now. If some major travesty has occurred at the last fete i would understand the whole controversy over the issue.