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Monday with
the Editor: Discipline in schools
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Today's classroom teacher has to
put up with rowdy, insolent students who know very well that
teachers can't touch them. They know that schools depend on
principals, vice-principals, discipline masters and operations
managers to handle them. So, as soon as these authorised cane
bearers disappear from sight along the end of the school corridor -
these students resume their rowdy behaviour unchallenged, that is,
until the next time the cane bearers come around the classrooms
again. It is not uncommon nowadays to see principals or
vice-principals walking around the classrooms with a cane in hand.
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But, the issue of ill-discipline
remains unresolved - the classroom teacher has to put up with such
insolent students who would not hesitate to mouth vulgarities in
dialect. They would also not think twice about challenging their
teacher to report to the principal again. How long can this
go on? The teacher can't be running back to the cane-bearers every
time! Usually, such incidents do not come about because of
inadequate experience on the part of the teacher in managing
classrooms. The system is at fault somewhere. If in abolishing
corporal punishment by classroom teachers years ago we have
effectively caused students to become overbearing and
confrontational - I daresay that move in abolishing corporal
punishment by classroom teachers was wrong in the first place.
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When I was young, teachers used
to mete out corporal punishment. Many of us have grown up into
adults since then. We have certainly not suffered as a result. In
fact, looking back, I realise that we students of the seventies were
much more well-behaved and well-mannered. I shudder when I hear
complaints about confrontational students - in my time at school -
we dared not talk back to our teachers, let alone confront them.
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Something is definitely wrong -
our educators in charge of policy should take steps to rein in
ill-discipline in schools, lest we lose many more teachers through
resignation.
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