DR woman claims her VI born child does not feel welcomed @ school
Monica Samuel, a businesswoman who has been residing on Virgin Gorda for the past 25 years, made the revelation on Sunday, September 27, 2020, during a live discussion with Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, Honourable Vincent O. Wheatley (R9).
She said she chose to allow her child to be born in the Territory, as opposed to the neighbouring US Virgin Islands (USVI), because of her love for the VI.
“When he started to go school, it was hard for me because they started calling him, ‘Spanish boy’, ‘Spanish this, Spanish that’. Many times my child coming crying… I said [to him] honey, just tell your friends you are proud to be Spanish, but you are proud to be English,” she said.
She informed that she raised the issue with the school, because her son was not feeling ‘welcomed’.
“It’s very hard …even [if] they [were] born here, it’s very rough,” she added.
Minister Wheatley said it "really hurt my heart that as human beings, we can be so cruel sometimes with children.”
Unity
He then called for unity and a halt to the practice.
The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government, led by Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has been pushing for a spirt of unity among all people of the Virgin Islands.
In December 2019, the Government gave Belonger and Residency status to some 1500 expatriates who had been living and working in the Territory for 20 years and more.
Premier Fahie had noted that the certificate was more than just a piece of paper, “it is our Government’s statement and the people of the Virgin Islands’ statement that we recognise you as a member of our community and as a person that is now a Virgin Islander.”
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58 Responses to “DR woman claims her VI born child does not feel welcomed @ school”
May you choke on your saliva and d**8 you hateful piece of carcass
Love is of and from god !!
The next thing that is not being addressed is the fact that bvislanders always taking the blame. When elections come the say it's more Expats than locals, but convenienly when abuses happen the minority are the victims WHICH MAKES NO SENSE. not because one child in a school system longer than another mean the earlier student is bvislander. Majority of locals send their children to private school to save them from abuse by migrant bullies. So the culprits here are unlikely to be locals but comrad migrants instead.
You lack education and your child soft. Fix it!
Most of us who born here while one or both parents from the caribbean islands also had to deal with that same bulls*****. However, educate him as to who is and what he can expect while in his tender age, so ask him to ignore those negative persons and focus on his future goal because this is where it all begin. Pay more attention to his education and know his friends. Keep him ahead in his studies and let nature take its course.