Teachers to blame for poor standards

On the day a dormitory at Stephjoy Boys' Secondary School was torched last week, I came across a Facebook post that was infuriating and insensitive; even criminal. It was a photograph of a secondary school girl in uniform forced to wear a cut manila paper around her neck with the inscription 'it is my hobby to urinate on beds'.

Bed wetting is one of the most humiliating things in a person's life. Adding salt to injury by ridiculing what is a medical condition only compounds an already worse situation. I know how humiliating that is because, I must admit, it is a situation I went through and I could feel the weight of the embarrassment on that girl's psyche. As a youngster, I tried all the crazy traditional remedies to overcome that degrading condition to no avail. Mercifully, it went off abruptly on its own.