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April 11, 2008
COMMENTARY
Losing our School Girls to Immorality
By: Jodi-Kaye Watson
 Gone are the days when school girls respected themselves and their uniforms. What is happening to our teenage girls? Everyone wants to be in hype. Buses and taxis without music seem to be losing. The buses and taxis have to be blazing the sounds of Vybz Kartel, Beenie Man and Mavado just to name a few. Some can sing the words of these songs without stuttering but try asking some of these girls what they learnt in school and one would think "the cat got their tongue". When will they realize that education is the key to success; education gives us the independence we need as women to survive.
Some girls no longer feel comfortable sitting in their seats but instead have to be positioned in the laps of males. Some even go to the extreme of having sexual intercourse on these buses and taxis. GIRLS - you need to start respecting yourselves and your bodies. If you refuse to respect yourselves how will men respect you and treat you as young ladies. Remember your body is the temple of the living God.
And to the adults in these young girls' lives - don't play the blame game. Instead try reaching out for counselling with them, because in some instances the root of the problem can be traced back to negative experiences.
Abuse and lack of emotional support are two of the causes of such behaviour. So parents, spend time with your children, love them and never abuse them. If you abuse your children they will expect and even accept abuse from others.
Teens, choose your friends wisely. As the saying goes "show me yuh company and mi tell yuh who yuh are." Its okay to say no, never let anyone influence you to do wrong or engage in activities you are not comfortable with. Friends who influence you to do wrong are not your true friends. It's okay to ask for advice and seek counselling. This is not a sign of weakness but a sign of maturity.
Dare to be Different!
Posted by yardFlex at April 11, 2008 10:14 AM
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Posted by: kimmy
on April 11, 2008 10:45 AM
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Posted by: slim d
on April 11, 2008 11:04 AM
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i have read ur column agree with ur column, Allow me to Enlighten u, when i was going to Sch 1996 High Sch, Girl always perfer to take the bus with Music, and it was like Beenie and Lady Saw back then, but guess wat we have to respect our Sch Uniform, y bcuz our parents were very strick then, the Parental Guardiance has broken down, bcuz we young ppl r Parents Today and we are light on our kids, bcuz our parents were too strick on us, everthing change, even dance goes until 9 am the next day, when it usually ends by 4 am, look lets us join hands to guide our kids in the development of person like how our parents did, stop looking at other sources, we are the one that has them, so let us protect them and nuture them please.
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Posted by: Dahlia
on April 11, 2008 11:18 AM
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I agree ,dem girls should start having self respect.
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Posted by: DIAMOND
on April 11, 2008 11:29 AM
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DIS IS UNREAL- WHERE DA HELL ARE THEIR PARENTS? I DON GET IT. IM SO DISGUSTED TO HERE BOUT DIS-
BACK INNA DE DAYS MAN --MI MADA WOULDA BACK SLAP ME SO HARD. IF I WAS EVA CAUGHT INNA ANY FOOLISHNESS. DEM BUS/TAXI DRIVAS NEED FI GET ARRESTED STA8- DEM NASTY SELF.DATS SO UNCOOL. DEM A CONNECT WID LIKKLE GIRLS LIK RICE ON PEAS.WAT A TRAGEDY.
ME KNO KNO. DIS IS DEFINATELY A DIFFERANT GENERATION. DATS WHY ME NAH WAN NO ONE BLAME NUTTIN ON DANCEHALL MUSIC OR MOVIES.
--EXAMPLE---ME & MI GIRLS DEM WENT TO OUR REGULAR MOVIE NIGHT- I WAS SITTIN INNA DE ROOM WATCHIN DOOMSDAY WEN I SAW DIS BLCK LADY WID 3 LIKKLE PICKENY INNA DE MOVIE ROOM WATCHIN DA MOVIE. BEHIND ME, WAS DE BOY SCREAMIN "YEAH GET EM" -- I WAS SO ANNOYED - ME WANTED TO BOX DA LADY INNA DE RAS HEAD-- U KNO WAN-- DIS SHIT IS ALL OVA DE WORLD THOUGH- PARENTS JUS A LEAVE DEM LIKKLE PICKNEY WID OUT NO TYPE OF WATCH OR GUIDANCE.
PLUS NOW THEYRE GETTIN PERIODS SUPA EARLY TOO. MI FREN DI OTHA DAY CALL ME GOIN NUTS -- SHE A TELL ME SEY HER LIKKLE PICKNEY A JUS GOT A PERIOD- & DEN DEM A START TO CHANGE & NASTY THOUGHTS A CUM INNA DEM HEAD TOO. DEN DEM WAN MAKE UP, TATTOO,PIERCIN & WEARIN SUM BATTI RIDA SHORTS. DAT SHIT IS SCARY.
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Posted by: pinky
on April 11, 2008 08:19 PM
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we as parents need to realize we have to be there parents and not there friends ,as i told my daughter we will not be friends until she finish high school and ready to go to college because that time she is basically a woman .the men have to be blame forthis behaviour too some of the these girls do these thing for populartiy and some times wants and adults have to say no look how much big woman in jamaica who need a man but i guess its cheaper to by kFC than to support or mentain a household.
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Posted by: Dre
on April 12, 2008 07:59 PM
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how can u expect any better... where is the positive influence around them????
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Posted by: sasha
on April 12, 2008 10:02 PM
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this is so true i am so inspired by ur words i will try to live up to these words and i am so ashamed of our young teem=ns now a days ma
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Posted by: justice
on April 13, 2008 11:01 AM
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we have break down as a nation we let a lot of things slip. as a little girl i want to go in pipers night club & centre pole one look security look on me he said go home u not 18 me & my friends of to walk plaza till we go home.now any age in a club a drink alchol. at 18 i still could not get in a club because i never look like 18. thank big ford i remeber day he would come to dance in grant pen and beat anyone who not is not 18 and in that dance.you go to a stage show smoking and alchol nothing is wrong when you are 18 it your choice.i look a big ford as a bad police but now i am a adult i c u different. i c what u wanted for grant pen sorry u did not achieve it.
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Posted by: Summer'
on April 14, 2008 12:41 PM
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I have realized that these girls have lost their pride. They let friends and HYPE influence them to do these thing. I agree with you. They are truly losing to Immorality.
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Posted by: deeka
on April 14, 2008 01:48 PM
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good story sis girls need to have morals and values and stop falling in societies traps!! this music thing gt them hypnotized
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Posted by: Ramona
on April 14, 2008 03:35 PM
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I am happy to see that im not the only one who feels this way, i only wish that other young girls could read it and put it into PERSPECTIVE.
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Posted by: keisha
on April 15, 2008 12:26 PM
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i remember when i was about 13 (i'm now 30) i'd put on some cherry chapstick or something and i'd barely gotten in the house when my mother started blazin me up!! saying one of her friends called and said they saw me outside wearing lipstick!! well i was so furious at the injustice cause i knew i wasnt wearing any damned lipstick!! what made me more mad is that at the time i had to be thankful she didnt tell my dad!! but now that i look back i realize that, although she and her striking friend were both misinformed, my mother was going all out to emphasize her ideas of values, virtue, even rites of passage -- those things that separate the girls from the WOMEN. and I am better off for it. that is what's missing nowadays. the old idiom is still true: IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD.
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Posted by: shelly
on April 15, 2008 03:41 PM
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some parents can't or won't talk to their children. they just turn a blind eye. some of these girls are so out of hand, and it's not long before they are no longer even attending school.
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Posted by: ps
on April 18, 2008 09:29 AM
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I hear you all loud and clear, but what about the young boys? Are they not to be held to the same standards as the girls?
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Posted by: celia
on April 25, 2008 07:23 AM
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yea need to start respectin their body'z i'm a young gurl myself who usually go to high school in jamaica n yes i luv to go in the buses that had the loud music but at the same time there is a limit for everthing, we need to more attention to what is a head of us
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Posted by: celia
on April 25, 2008 07:23 AM
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yea need to start respectin their body'z i'm a young gurl myself who usually go to high school in jamaica n yes i luv to go in the buses that had the loud music but at the same time there is a limit for everthing, we need to more attention to what is a head of us
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