Former school principal Keith Griffith has spoken out against parents disturbing the peace of schools, saying their actions threatened to plunge Barbados into “darkness, ignorance and illiteracy”.
Griffith, priest in charge of St Clement’s Anglican Church in St Lucy and former principal of what is now known as the Frederick Smith Secondary School, spoke against the backdrop of the recent attack on principal Jeff Broomes at the Parkinson Memorial Secondary School.
He said parents and guardians who displayed violent and other negative behaviour on school compounds demonstrated that they did not see the need to preserve education “which is the way to keep us out of darkness, out of ignorance, out of illiteracy”.
Human civilization “was built up on education” and if education was not preserved there would be major problems for society, including people’s ability to function at work, in business, in industry, science, commerce and health, Griffith argued.
