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Change the country’s educational system or lose the battle against crime!

That is the stern view of High Court Judge Justice Carlisle Greaves, who says there is need for the establishment of a remedial school for young, troubled youth.

At the same time, the outspoken jurist has also called for an end to students being kicked out of school without alternative teaching options.

Justice Greaves made the comments today in the No. 3 Supreme Court, just before sentencing three young men on a robbery charge.

Shalom Batson, 26, 21-year-old Renanco Bovell and Carl Sealy, 23, had previously pleaded guilty to robbing Jamar Poulett of $427 on September 6, 2016.

However, Justice Greaves said he was concerned that the probation reports of the three young men all suggested they were troubled from a very young age when they engaged in drug use.

He said Batson had been put out of his house three times by the time he was 16 years old and kicked out of school.

Justice Greaves said a remedial school was necessary to assist children in those circumstances.

He maintained that he was not speaking about educational institutions such as the Government Industrial School (GIS) or the former Alma Parris Memorial School.

“This brings me to two concerns. Since 1992 in this jurisdiction as a magistrate, I have advocated for the establishment of a remedial school for youth who show anti-social behaviour in our school system. I have been and remain adamantly opposed to the practice in this jurisdiction of putting our children out of school with nowhere to go because of their behavioural issues,” Justice Greaves maintained.

“I have long advocated that no child should be suspended for any period of time or expelled without some organised or stable institution to hold them. A proper remedial school is needed where behavioural issues can be addressed with properly-trained counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists, persons trained in remedial education where our kids can be properly analysed.

“I’m not speaking about a GIS or the sort that we have had and I am not speaking about an Alma Parris. I’m speaking about a real remedial school to which our youngsters who show deviant and anti-social behaviour would be sent for a period of time necessary and then be returned back to conventional schools.

“Many of these problems that our youth have start at the juvenile level…If you are missed at the primary level the record shows that the behaviour continues at the secondary level so therefore we need a remedial school at the secondary level with the same type of facilities of which I have spoken. If we do not change the way we deliver our education we are not going to eliminate the crime that we have,” Greaves contended.

He pointed out that if those troubled children did not receive the necessary help, in most cases they either ended up before the court or in the grave.

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