BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large helpsh@jamaicaobserver.com Sunday, July 06, 2014
THE embattled Hopewell High School in Hanover has again been placed under the microscope, this time with reports of daily sexual acts by students on properties situated close to the institution.
Apart from indulging in sexual activities, smoking of ganja is also rampant off property, the Jamaica Observer has found out. The matter appears to have got out of control and the school's management has not been able to reduce or prevent the activities.
Even as the school year ended last Friday, fear has deepened that the new academic year will begin in September without the matter being sufficiently addressed by authorities.
“Every day these students leave the compound to engage in sexual activity,” a veteran school official told the Sunday Observer last week.
“This situation is continuing and getting worse, and nobody seems to want to do anything about it,” the official added.
Hopewell High, which opened on September 4, 2006, has been saturated in an ocean of woe in recent times, what with the suspension of its first and only principal, Joyce Irving, amid claims of widespread corruption at the co-educational institution.
But with Irving's forced suspension last January to facilitate a probe into the administration of the school, there has been no improvement in the general conduct at the institution, nor has there been an upgrade in the administrative structures that will lead to greater efficiency, members of the school's fraternity have complained to the Sunday Observer.
Documents obtained by the Sunday Observer confirm acts of irregularities that the board of directors are yet to resolve, even with the introduction of Education Officer Leonie Dunwell, who has been acting in the 58-year-old Irving's absence.
The school's property was fenced when it opened its doors, but thieves have since broken down and stolen chunks of the chain-link fence, while students have cut openings in other sections as they go on their sexual journeys.
The sex spots are varied, ranging from dense, bushy locations close to the school, to as far away as perhaps one of the most popular spots called 'The Cave', literally an underground spot structured like a small cave, close to Phase Two of the upscale Orchard Housing Scheme owned by an expatriate capitalist.
There, a mattress was found last year, presumably used by students whose testosterone levels had shot up to remarkable proportions.
“The students have sex off the property daily. Sometimes you will even hear them talking about going down in the bushes to do it, even with adults hearing them clearly. more
Isn't this a school that would benefit from Sex/Drug Education classes? Apparently they don't know the consequences of their actions.
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