A week after a disturbing video went viral on social media showing a male student from the Grantley Adams Memorial School setting fire to the hair of an unsuspecting female student, Minister of Education Ronald Jones today appealed to this island’s school children to cut out the “foolish” pranks.

Referring directly to the incident at a bus stop, a stone’s throw away from the Blackman’s, St. Joseph learning institution, and which has already resulted in a 15-year-old schoolboy being remanded to the Government Industrial School, Jones said: “One has to be saddened that even a careless prank could have these outcomes.

Last week’s incident was met with swift and strong condemnation from President of the Barbados National Council of Parent Teachers Association Shone Gibbs, who described the videotaped incident as “extremely disturbing” and nothing to laugh about.

According to the Barbados Today, Jones was equally condemnatory, as he warned that such behaviour had no place in the school system.

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