HLSCC students complain of unfair treatment
As a matter of fact, from what our information reveals, college students are being treated like the stepchildren and their murmurings are beginning to get louder.
A bus driver who has been plying that route for a number of years, Charles M. George, shared similar concerns and told this news site that it is a troubling matter for him to be witnessing the way the college students are suddenly being treated since the arrival of the high school students.
According to him, there is a new booth placed at the entrance of the college and busses are no longer able to drive through with college students like they used to. The students are now required to disembark at the security checkpoint and show their college Identification card, searched with metal detectors and then walk to the school, which is a good distance- in rain or sun.
On the other hand, the school buses are allowed to drive in with the 6th form students without any hassle.
“This shouldn’t be, this is a college campus, the high school kids have the preference to everything, how comes they just come in and take over a whole college campus?” George asked. “It’s a confusion that is going on and I think it is something that needs to be addressed.”
This news site’s reporter did a stake out this morning and observed that indeed the school busses with sixth form students passed the security checkpoint unchecked while vehicles transporting college students were made to disembark their passengers.
We asked one of the taxi drivers why he didn’t take the students in the compound as has been the case for years. “The security not letting us in. The students have to come out and show their identification cards,” the man said.
It is not clear when the new security arrangements were put in place and who ordered it. College officials could not be immediatley reached for comment up to time of publication.
Lack of communication
The matter was also addressed during the Speak Your Mind show on JTV channel 55 on Saturday September 10, 2016.
Host, Mr Richard C. de Castro stated that there are a number of things that the college has decided to do, such as putting a booth at the entrance to screen persons coming in and out of the college, and they have paved an extra turning lane into the college so that the traffic would be lessened bearing mind that this is the route to the island’s airport.
He said in his opinion “I think it is going to work.”
Meanwhile, his co-host Mr John Lewis suggested that there needs to be a shelter on the inside of the college grounds for students who have to await transportation, particularly during the rain.
At present, students have to wait alongside the road.
“But I guess all these things will evolve with time and of course there will always those of us who will be quick to blame the Minister for these things,” he noted.
While Lewis said things will evolve with time, he said the problem facing that issue was the lack of communication from the authorities to the people.`
“Perhaps the problem is the lack of communication, there are things happening where the public needs to know and if the public doesn’t know then the public is going to react, with information, [their] reaction is going to be different."
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118 Responses to “HLSCC students complain of unfair treatment”
1. DISRESPECTFUL GUARDS.
2. HAVING TO WALK THE LONG STRETCH WHILE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ARE CHAUFFEURED TO THE CLOSEST POINT OF GETTING TO CLASS.
3. HAVING US REMOVED FROM OUR COMFORT ZONE FOR THEM. (Yes we can't be selfish but when they are given all of this so easily we feel as if we do not have a voice and we are being shut out!)
Not even in the evenings after 3:15 when all ESHS have departed are our transportations allowed to come on campus to pick us up.
Please do understand this is our concern. No need to fuss and fight.
And BTW, these students here are making us uncomfortable. When we need to use the computer labs for example, they in there being demons. When we having classes, they making a ton of noise like idiots. AYA GET THEM OUT! Them up there skipping classes too.
they not looking at people who working til 5 and rushing in the 5pm traffic to get on campus to a 5:30 class u know what that means, late arrival to classes and when you late you tardy, messing up your attendance and the college have a policy when your 15 min late to a class your absent and if your absent more than 5 times in 3 weeks your withdrawn. the people didn't think this through at all and it all goes back to implementing that 6 form toooo soon. you should have let the kids of 2016 graduate and start it for the kids after. now this BS causing a heap of commotion. God Rest his soul Mr Stoutt Probably turning in his grave because of this.
However, the students cannot be accommodated at the Marine Base because of the other Technical Program that is housed there. So it's safe to say they should have WAITED to implement the 12th Grade until they had somewhere to put them!
No *$$
What are the classes taken regular or college prep classes and I do agree how can you take high school students and put them on a college campus and give them preference over the college students. The college students needs to stand up and have a voice our government can't be just dictating and the masses don't have a voice.
The college security rarely had any issues in the past, college students fought or misbehaved in anyway they were simply expelled and order was restored.
If you keep treating these students like babies or harden criminals how do you expect them to grow up to be sensible adults?
Disassemble these high security measures, make known the severe consequences for any misbehaviour and make examples of those who choose to misbehave by informing the said consequences.
Being any adult is all about making decisions and living with the consequence or those decisions. YOU MAKE YOUR BED YOU LAY IN IT, SIMPLE!!
Lawlessness and foolishness here are BVI traits. From illegal tinted glass, to tossing stuff out car windows, to overtaking and turning into the next gap, to fixing junk cars on the public street. The list is so long, it would take several pages to compile.
No wonder the governor said he was amused by some of the complaints. If there are anything such as fools' complaints, these complaints about the new HLSCC security measures fit the bill.
Secondly, the high school students are leaving their garbage all over the campus. They do not clean up behind themselves and the security guards are seen picking up their garbage. Is this a part of their security duties?
On another note there are not enough bathroom facilities and college students have to wait in line while the high school girls brush their weave.
This is really nonsense that we the college student have to walk up in the hot sun to our classes and the buses are driving in the Eshs students . i dont understand why the college students have to suffer for walwyn nonsense. they really need to change this nonsense and make the buses drop in the college students to . the security need to learn to how to approach people .
Complain com$%%&plain, all day long.
the college is already a 6th form, so how many 6th forms does the minister of Education want students to attend.
further more there is no room at the high school to accommodate the students, and now they are dumped at the college. Teachers have to drive their personal vehicles back and forth from the high school to the college to teach classes. another thoughtless strategy.
I see a normal thing going on here, no planning, no vision, no insight, yet there is a quest for success. where there is no vision, the people ----
Arise.
A bunch of African descendants whose parents andd grandparents walked miles, barefoot up hill and down hill and attended school ifthey were lucky are here complaining about walking a few paces when they exit a vehicle and to make matters worse, entering an air conditioned space where the chill will supposedly create a health crisis.
Unbelievable ignorance!
Re: security...that is a reflection of the lack of home training or perhaps theDNA imprint which causes and has caused their violent tendencies. Peruse the latest local news and you will see no shortage of mommas and poppa's engaging in violent acting out.
Even the police and station are not immune to the acting out of mommas and the poppa's.
they exit a vehicle. Focus on the quality of education otherwise shut your cavities.
If you education
No
..And when a child is shot or stabbed at the institution we will see over 100 comments on the news sites and on Facebook asking why Government didn't do something about it. We go abroad and follow every single rule with not even a whimper, but at home we at like hooligans and rabid dogs every time we have to follow rules. Then we wonder why this generation is so £$%^" up.
We are the ones treated like step children...........
Worse yet is that it's not only the children we getting inhabitant behavior from..... It is the staff as well!! Yes the teachers and I am typing from personal experience
And i want tho know which bathroom has a line to brush weave
We our selves are not comfortable at the campus
, any difficulties experienced don't blame us ,blame the people in charge that came up with this Golden idea .....and come on this isn't going to be forever , and we are not the first Batch to go to the college we are the LAST BATCH , we are not going to be there forever by right we are suppose to out of there by 2017school year we hope so until then hang tight this too shall pass
1) there is no line at the bathroom room , it's ALWAYS empty
2) there was NO FIGHT on the campus .
3) we dont leave no trash because the security does remind us to throw it away
LASTLY
4) yall acting like we want to be through yall ! we dontt . we didnt had a choice ! if we did we wasnt coming between ayo AT ALL .
The two should never mix or intertwine with each other. It's a total distraction to each other it discredits both institutions makes the college reverse to a high school settings and vice versa with the high school being in a college setting takes the anticipation of going to the college after high school . Just my small mind thinking feel free to tear my opinion apart. I'm not system mathically learned excuse me just my opinion
The 12 grades had no say in the decision as to where we would be housed nor did you college students , so again my question to you is , why bully verbally and cyber the high school students who had no say in the matter?
You claim that we're invading yet the only spaces we share are the bathrooms,cafeteria and science and computer labs , all at different times . Also if your claiming to be mature adults or mature children attending HLSCC you would sit down as a collective group and go through your proper channels to be heard , like the high schoolers .
"I am a proud member of the Elmore Stoutt High school and with god's help I will be diligent in my studies and mindful of my behavior. I pledge to uphold the rule sand standards of the school which promotes positive and productive growth for myself , the community , and word at large of which I'm apart. "
Remember that pledge? To those students who once attended ESHS but are now at HLSCC. You once quoted it and lived by it . I plead be a part of the solution and not the problem .
- A proud member of ESHS
Why this sound like Walwyn or someone in his cabinet speaking
tbh nobody gone listen to anybody side on the story everybody just want make confusion. but tbh the children have more right to the school than the colleg persons. most of them stuff is lie but all them changes was just thrown at us all in one day NO MEETING NO ASSEMBLY NO EMAIL NOTHING how you expect us to act when we see all these things being change mind innuh i aint got no problem with the people them children i could careless but no high school child should be at a "college" then again all the money spent on that booth, speed bump, bar etc is probably why they cant print paper for us
To you collage guys I know how aryo feel. Is like you guys back in high school again right? Don't mind that just go with the flow guys.
High Schools Graduates entering into the World of Higher Education normally have to go through a process of orientation to transition their minds for this different type of academic environment and expectations. However, this minister has made an unwise decision to house 12th graders in the environment instead. What does the accreditation board have to say about this? Do they even know that, possibly, certain compliance obligations are being jeopardized by this move?
This whole debacle by the minister of education was just poorly executed. Doing "nothing" until proper plans and strategies are formulated-most times- is/was the "best option."
The children should have been allowed to graduate while the extra year idea was being worked out and all structures put in place.
This whole idea at this time was just forcefully wrong. The Elders say, "never try to put a square peg in a round hole; it will never fit.”
Btw walking is good for the health
to walk...they are acres and acres and vehicles and chauffers won't be pulling up to the front door for you to make an entrance.
Now, allyo are the consumers and in business,customer is always right so hit backatHLSCC with a request for a refund of the tuition that you have paid and in the future,those generous donations from parents won't be coming..
Schuupps...the way allyo are being made to accept temporary inconvenience,one would conclude that you all are a bunch of obese freeloaders being forced to walk a few minutes in your lifetime and to get an education