Child rights activist Hazel Thompson-Ahye made some sound points in her Trinidad Express column last week. She identified the fact that many of the responses to the recent upsurge in school violence have been "strident and ill-advised." Thompson-Ahye is referring to is a taped fight between schoolgirls at the Mucurapo West Secondary School.
Fight is probably too soft a word to describe what was an all out brawl, that was readily view-able on YouTube and Facebook (and which also made it's way onto the evening news with glaring disregard for media ethics). The brawl showed the young ladies who were fighting had a blatant disregard for authority, as they cursed and beat not only each other, but also the off-duty police officer who stepped in to part the altercation. This behavior is not isolated, however.
