{"id":55280,"date":"2022-04-23T09:49:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T13:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55280"},"modified":"2022-04-23T10:13:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-23T14:13:22","slug":"prime-minister-on-school-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55280","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister on school violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BIG><em>We can&#8217;t beat our way out of it<\/em><\/BIG><\/p>\n<p><em>By Jensen La Vende<br \/>\nApril 21, 2022 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2022\/04\/21\/pm-on-school-violence-we-cant-beat-our-way-out-of-it\/\">newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?tag=keith-rowley\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/rowley_emancipation.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='PM Dr Keith Rowley' \/><\/a>CORPORAL PUNISHMENT will not be the solution for school violence the Prime Minister said on Thursday as he responded to number of videos of school children fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with the media at the Piarco International Airport on Thursday, Dr Rowley said a better approach must be used.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no intention to beat our way out of this,\u201d Rowley said when asked if the re-introduction of corporal punishment would be used to curb school violence.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nIn a media release on Thursday, the Education Ministry said it assembled a team to look at appropriate measures to curb school violence since suspension seems to have the opposite effect. The ministry said suspension now is seen as a \u201cbadge of honour.\u201d The statement said based on the School Discipline Matrix, suspension is one of the most severe punishment used as a deterrent.<br \/>\n<em><A HREF=\"https:\/\/newsday.co.tt\/2022\/04\/21\/pm-on-school-violence-we-cant-beat-our-way-out-of-it\/\">Full Article : newsday.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t beat our way out of it By Jensen La Vende April 21, 2022 &#8211; newsday.co.tt CORPORAL PUNISHMENT will not be the solution for school violence the Prime Minister said on Thursday as he responded to number of videos of school children fighting. Speaking with the media at the Piarco International Airport on Thursday, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=55280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prime Minister on school violence<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,639,8],"tags":[85,60],"class_list":["post-55280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-tt","category-politics","category-schools","category-violence","tag-abuse","tag-keith-rowley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55282,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55280\/revisions\/55282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}