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Have you ever wondered what’s it like being a Jamaican living in Nunavut? In this episode of “Jamaicans to the World”, Jamaicans.com founder Xavier Murphy speaks with Sonia Osbourne.
Students in Taloyoak, Nunavut, are back in class at the community's only school, 10 weeks after a fuel spill shut the facility down.
Earlier this year, a Nunavut father received a call that his son had been beaten up at school. The aggressor — who was three grades older — had spit on the man's son. The younger boy retaliated by splashing a slush drink on the older boy, and got punched in the face for it. While the two boys were separated in different offices, the aggressor left the office, sought out the younger boy, and began assaulting him anew, the father told CBC. The older boy received a week's suspension — the maximum allowed without intervention by the local District Education Authority. Furious, th...
The report found a lack of mental health training "had led some teachers to discipline students for poor behaviour instead of identifying the behaviour as a sign of a possible mental health issue." The representative's office scolded the Education Department a year later, saying the government's responses to the report's 15 recommendations lacked "substance, commitment, collaboration, and a sense of urgency that the mental health of young Nunavummiut deserve." While the department sent updated responses last year, and says it is working on improvements, educators who spoke with CBC News say, ...
Posted: Feb 22, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 22 Students board a school bus at the Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit in a March 30, 2009, file photo. In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools.(Nathan Denette/Canadian Press) This is Part 1 of a three-part series on violence in Nunavut's schools. In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools. Of those, 971 were student-on-student incidents, 110 were incidents where students were alleged to have assaulted staff, and 12 were wher...