TTUTA calls for stronger response to school violence

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers' As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) has called for stronger in­ter­ven­tions to ad­dress school vi­o­lence, say­ing bul­ly­ing, phys­i­cal as­saults and in­tim­i­da­tion have no place in schools.

The as­so­ci­a­tion's pres­i­dent, Crys­tal Bevin Ashe, made the call fol­low­ing the lat­est al­leged at­tack at Princes Town East Sec­ondary School, where a 15-year-old stu­dent re­port­ed­ly as­sault­ed an­oth­er pupil with a shov­el, leav­ing her hos­pi­talised.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia, Ashe said TTUTA was aware of re­ports about the in­ci­dent but want­ed to ob­tain and ver­i­fy the rel­e­vant in­for­ma­tion be­fore com­ment­ing on the spe­cif­ic cir­cum­stances or any his­to­ry of com­plaints at the school.