haitian students

Here is a case where authorities at Orange County Middle School told a Haitian student to remove Haitian flag bandana at school.

Mitchpaelle Quetant, a student at the Meadowbrook Middle School in Orange County was upset when she was told by the school administrators to take off a bandana of the Haitian flag while she was going to celebrate the Haitian Flag day on May 18th. She was sent to school suspension when she refused to take off the flag. As per the school authority's dictum, the national flag was not the cause of the problem, but wearing bandana on campus was against the conduct of the school. The school principal has shown the Eyewitness News representatives that there were many students wearing shirts showing the Haitian flag and they were never asked to change. However, frustrated Quetant has said, the authority don't let us come to school and display our pride for our country.

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The Kore Etidyan program offers to students a subsidy for their education. Each endowment is 2,000 gourdes at a time, going up to 18,000 gourdes per student for one academic year.

Eligible students must be enrolled at the State University of Haiti, a Public University in Region, or in any other eligible higher education school. They must exhibit regular school attendance, have a cell phone and a National Identification card. Failure to comply to these criteria will mean ineligibility for the subsidy.

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This is a picture of the student protest in Port-au-Prince on Monday, November 13, 2012 as Haitian students continued their demonstration over the death of death of Damael d'Haiti. This student who was 24, died Saturday of a gunshot wound during a university party over the weekend at the School of Law and Social Sciences in Port-au-Prince.

Haitian police and CIMO fired tear gas. The Police officer accused for the shooting is in custody at the Judicial Police headquarters in Port-au-Prince.

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Here is a picture of some school children in Haiti carrying bricks on top of their heads to build a school on top of a mountain in Haiti.

As Haitians, doesn't that remind you of something back in the history of Haiti?

Isn't this the way Roi Henri Christophe built the Citadele Laferiere.

I don't know about you to mee it seems like these Haitian Students are using the same tactics that Henri Christophe used to build their School. I can only see hard labor and abuse.

The only sad thing about this is that it has been close to 200 years ago since the Citadele was built and we did not know any better. Has there been any progress in Haiti since?

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