–walkout over food aborts corporal punishment discussion
Teachers in Georgetown yesterday aired mixed views about the automatic promotion of poor students but the absence of lunch stood in the way of the consultation going on to deal with the thorny issue of corporal punishment.
At a Ministry of Education-organised consultation held at Queen’s College, that was supposed to hear stakeholders express their views on both corporal punishment and automatic promotions, several teachers recommended that special structured classes be set up to offer remedial work, while others passionately outlined why it should be abolished.
However no views were heard on corporal punishment as the session came to an abrupt end, shortly after 1.30 pm, when President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) Colin Bynoe said that given that
