HAVANA, December 19 (Rafael Pérez, AFPCP) - Violence is on the
increase among secondary school students in Havana. Both boys and girls are
increasingly likely to get involved in fights, according to residents of the
capital.
On Monday, December 18, two girls stopped traffic in Consejero Arango street
when they went at each other punching, kicking and biting.
"Secondary school students are like animals. They scream, fight, are
disrespectful of older people, and no one can call them to account. This is the
education that Fidel (Castro) says they are getting in the schools," said a
70-year-old woman who lives near the Antonio Maceo middle school.
Other residents of the area agree. "The fights are not just among boys;
now the girls also fight, mostly about boyfriends. Imagine, that’s the
youth we have now; they scream obscenities, they don’t respect their elders
and if someone talks to them, they get offensive," said a housewife, 40, in
the neighborhood.
Another woman, 60, said: "This is all due to the ‘school in the
countryside’ (a 45-day period in which middle school boys and girls are
taken from their homes to work in agriculture) where girls and boys, instead of
working, as they say they are supposed to, have sex before their time, and if
the parents prevent the children from participating they lose the opportunity to
study in a university later on."
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