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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.

  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.

  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.

  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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