Parent breaks silence on attack at St Angela’s Primary

– says went peacefully to enquire about son’s beating incidents

One day after a parent attacked and beat a teacher attached to St Angela’s Primary School, the parent, Latoya, took to social media to clarify her side of the story.

During a Facebook live with a social media commentator, it was revealed that the parent visited the school after discovering that the palm of her 9-year-old son’s hand had a piece of wood in it due to being beaten by a teacher with a ruler.
According to the angry mother, her son was beaten on Tuesday and Wednesday for talking in the classroom, but it was only Wednesday afternoon that she discovered he had a wood splinter in his hand.
She explained that she learnt that her son’s class teacher was not feeling well and as a result, a substitute teacher took over the class.
While addressing the issue, the mother clarified that she peacefully visited the school in an attempt to resolve the matter. After being frustrated due to waiting hours for the teacher’s arrival, she decided to leave but just as she was about to do so, the teacher walked into the school compound but did not greet her with any respect.
“I went to St Angela’s Primary School, not with the intention to physically assault or abuse, verbally in no way, any teacher. That was not my intention! As I was about to head out the gate, in came a teacher. The cleaner that was sitting with me…was like ‘look the teacher coming’… and the teacher look at me, screw up she face and one long suck teeth,” she explained.
“My actions are not right,” she admitted.
However, she pleaded that “At the time that a mother is hurting and pleading and you know, looking for some sort of justification, how can you provoke a mother like that?”
She further enlightened that after she was faced with such disrespect, she reacted in the moment and snatched the teacher’s wig off. “After she sucked her teeth…and what’s not, I…grabbed her wig,” she told viewers.
Subsequent to that incident, the woman shared that she was asked to leave the compound, and she complied.
Shortly after the teacher left for the Head Mistress’s office, Latoya heard disrespectful comments being shouted, which were directed to her by the teacher.
“By the time I reach through the gate, all I hear is “I gon see you pon the road and I gon buss your…head” and she went off… “she gon see me on the road,” “yuh black mongol,” so with that I turned around and I was furious…that’s when you guys saw the video of me barging into the compound,” she explained.
“My thing is, you wronged my child. As a parent…I came to you humble. Be humble enough to apologise and say…I’m sorry for what happened, give me an explanation as to what happened. Don’t try to say that oh, you are right and I am wrong,” the mother added.
Guyana Times understands that the Police have charged the mother and she is expected to appear in court soon.