School Security Upgrade ‘Overdue’

Thu, Jan 9th 2020, 07:00 AM

A DAY after two students were stabbed at C V Bethel High School, Bahamas Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson said she has been making a clarion call for more than a decade to strengthen school security.  Ms Wilson said incidents like these in high schools are not new and that a more aggressive plan has to be put in place to protect not only students, but teachers, administrators and staff on school campuses. “This is 2020 and for the last 15 years I’ve been saying the same thing over and over about safety and violence in the schools. It’s not the first time that an incident has happened at C V Bethel, not only student-on-student (violence), but student-on-teacher and these incidents are not just specific to C V Bethel,” she said.

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