Mr Jones has a point that should be considered.  I always felt the same way about sending children home or leaving them locked outside.  Have a detention room where they are expected to do work assignments of some sort.  To have them roaming the streets during the day will lead to further bad behaviour down the road not necessarily improvements.

Hopefully his comments will not be taken as plain criticism.

We need a wider discussion.
There are children who will not or cannot conform to the discipline and requirements of a conventional school.
School should be an oasis for those who go to get an education and those who go to teach them. Since that IS the function of a school.
It is not meant to be an escape from reality, a welfare service,a prison nor a shelter for social deviants.
Teachers and students should not have to tolerate the minority who persistently flout authority, commit violent acts or distract the majority from learning.
Some of these children have anti-social personality disorder, bipoplar disorder and other forms of mental illness. Often undiagnosed.
They need professional help,sometimes institutional help.Teachers cannot do this job no matter how much they care.
It is time to educate the policymakers about these lost children and reform our education and social services to give them a real chance to have a future.
Is is not enough to “draw them close”. They need a lot more.

Do principals ‘own’ the schools in Barbados or what?

And this corporal punishment they give the children or should I say ‘blows that they dispense on people’s children’ is outdated, Colonial, in-humane and unjust and should be stamped out immediately!
How can it not be against the Law to brutalise children??!! Put them in detention.

They are talking about human rights for Garcia, but someone needs to shine the spot light on human rights for the pupils of schools in Barbados.

Beatings, beatings and more beatings.

John 3:16…Watch who you are giving blows to…

Now I agree with Mr Jones on this point. I always felt that punishment should be other than sending home children who often are only too glad for that opportunity. I daresay some of them created that sort of opportunity.

That was not all Mr Jones said however, so where is my blog? You Nation people keep me young by making me smile at your….....

As someone who has taught Middle or Secondary school in the US for a number of years, I would like to offer up some suggestions:  In no way should persistently disruptive students be allowed to stay in the classroom and prevent other students from learning and the teacher from teaching.  It might be prudent to hire a person specifically to supervise a particular classroom called “In-School Suspension” (every secondary and high school should have one).  This is where the student(s) must be sent with their day’s worth of school work.  It operates on the same schedule as the school…Whenever there is a change in schedule, the teacher sends the assignments to the student, who must complete all work in In-School Suspension for the remainder of the day, if necessary.  For their misdeeds, they are required to complete the work on their own (that includes reading the textbooks, answering the problems, and submitting the assignments, tests, etc.).  Absolutely no socializing or talking to other students is permitted.  This way, they keep up with the rest of their class, but without the help of the teacher, which they have forfeited by their misbehavior.  If the behavior is offensive enough, then they receive “Out of School Suspension”, where they do not come to school for the next day or two or three…Yet they must complete ALL work as if they had been attending class as usual.  Tough love needed here, not coddling.

Well Mary Yearwood, what you have stated is a good idea. But the schools will not see fit to do it. You have 2 different educational and cultural systems here.
Barbadian school children (not all) are educated with blows, licks, straps and cou cou sticks! Flogging is a part of school life. In this century I cannot believe it still goes on! NONSENSE!