The photograph of a schoolboy without his shirt in a newspaper report on an incident outside a secondary school earlier this week has disturbed Minister of Education Ronald Jones.
He told students at Ellerslie Secondary School yesterday: “I was saddened this week when I came to one of our newspapers and an incident took place at another secondary school and on the outside of that school I saw a young man who had shed his shirt . . . . He had disrobed himself in the callous disregard to the dignity of his school’s attire.
“I was sad because it was a reflection of the notion that ‘I am a bad boy’,” Jones lamented.
He reminded students that uniforms and epaulettes should be worn with pride so that when they went into the streets and the byways of Barbados people speaking about their school would speak about how they carried our uniform with a sense of pride.
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