Yvonne Webb

The Mod­er­a­tor of the Pres­by­ter­ian Church Rev An­abell Lal­la-Ramkhelawan and the Pres­by­ter­ian Sec­ondary School Board of Ed­u­ca­tion are meet­ing at this time to de­ter­mine the fate of a Na­pari­ma Col­lege sci­ence teacher who went on a rant de­nounc­ing gays and threat­en­ing to shoot the fam­i­ly of a stu­dent if she had a gun.

The meet­ing is tak­ing place at the Church's Par­adise Pas­ture of­fice, San Fer­nan­do, which is on the same com­pound of the Col­lege now un­der scruti­ny.

The teacher is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore the Church's hi­er­ar­chy to ex­plain her state­ments, which were taped by a stu­dent and post­ed on so­cial me­dia. School Prin­ci­pal Dr Michael Dowlat is al­so at­tend­ing the meet­ing.

Rev Lal­la-Ramkhelawan said fol­low­ing the meet­ing a state­ment will be is­sued to the me­dia. She said there will be no in­ter­views on the out­come of the meet­ing.

The par­ents of the Up­per Six stu­dent she threat­ened to shoot, are call­ing for her re­moval.

The par­ents said they feel threat­ened, hurt and dis­tressed with the teacher la­belling their son as a ho­mo­sex­u­al and them as athe­ists be­cause he made a state­ment in con­flict with her be­lief on ho­mo­sex­u­al­i­ty.

"My son is not gay. He was on­ly de­fend­ing a group of peo­ple who are be­ing dis­crim­i­nat­ed against," the moth­er said.

Her hus­band who al­so be­longs to the Pres­by­ter­ian faith, said, 'we are not athe­ists. We be­lieve in God. I pray every­day for my chil­dren and my wife for us to move for­ward.

He said he fears that char­ac­ter as­sas­si­na­tion could se­vere­ly im­pact the fu­ture of their child who is work­ing hard to achieve a na­tion­al schol­ar­ship.

"She might be a good teacher but at this mo­ment she has not demon­strat­ed that. She is not God she can­not pass judge­ment like that on us."

He said any­one who knows them will know they are good par­ents who have made end­less sac­ri­fices to en­sure their sons are all ex­celling.