The AS­JA Ed­u­ca­tion Board says that the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has com­plet­ed an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to al­le­ga­tions of bul­ly­ing at AS­JA Girls’ Col­lege, San Fer­nan­do, and found no ev­i­dence to sup­port the claims.

In No­vem­ber 2024, Guardian Me­dia high­light­ed a par­ent’s ac­cu­sa­tions that her daugh­ter was bul­lied by class­mates and mis­treat­ed by staff af­ter voic­ing cer­tain con­cerns. The re­ports al­leged that school of­fi­cials shield­ed the ac­cused bul­ly be­cause their par­ent was a teacher at the school.

AS­JA Ed­u­ca­tion Board chair­man Rahi­mool Ho­sein said an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion led by the Schools Su­per­vi­sor III of the Vic­to­ria Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict, along with an in­ter­nal re­view by the school’s ad­min­is­tra­tion, re­sult­ed in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion is­su­ing cor­re­spon­dence on Feb­ru­ary 3, con­firm­ing that the al­le­ga­tions were un­sub­stan­ti­at­ed.

He said the min­istry’s find­ings brought clo­sure to the mat­ter, con­firm­ing that due process was fol­lowed and no wrong­do­ing was found. —Ot­to Car­ring­ton