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Some Legal Literacy Issues: TT Newspaper Articles Involving Educators

Almost all of these headlined reports concerning teachers which appear in the electronic media have legal ramifications...

i. Teacher accused of sexual harassment at school (De Silva, 2022)

ii. Mom demands justice for bullied, beaten teen (Kissoon, 2022)

iii. State to pay student who was slapped for claiming teacher kissed female pupil - Trinidad Guardian (Achong, 2022)

iv. Perverted teachers sharing inappropriate content with students. (Paul, 2022)

v. Majority of teachers took the day off to protest? (Santoo, 2019)

vi. Parents claim child, 6, beaten by teacher (Felmine, 2015)

vii. Teacher spits on eight-year-old boy. Miss curses, abuses students (Ali, 2012)

viii. Pupil, 12, pleads guilty to slapping, choking teacher…Boy ‘tripped off after being provoked’ (Mohammed, 2014)

ix. Gov’t blocks TTUTA’s protest, court orders teachers to work (Julien, 2022).

xi. Teacher beaten by students after he attempts to take away “scratch
bombs” (Trinidad and Tobago, i95.5, 2018).

xii. High Court rules in favour of Tobago contract teachers (Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, 2020).

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