Thursday, November 29, 2007

CANNING FOR UNRULY GIRLS IN SCHOOLS

The Education Ministry is considering canning for unruly girls in schools. Have the officials involved thought through the dilemma inflicted on these unruly girls? Education is to bring discipline, learn and think of what's right and wrong, gaining knowledge to pursue one's aim in life, inter-act with others to foster friendship and harmony in one's relationship in cultures and religions and so forth. Now if girls turn unruly in schools, what have gone wrong in the education systems in schools? The educators must study what aren't right in their teaching until girls become unruly in schools. You think canning is effective to control disciplinary problems amongst the students in schools? I dont think so. When I was in school, I saw my schoolmates canned in the general assembly. The school shamed these students and I doubt it had any impact on the students. The most effective way is to ask these unruly students to clean public toilets for a week. Repeat offences 2 weeks. In time they will learn how hard to keep toilets clean. By then I am sure these unruly students will think twice before trying to break the rules in schools. The other method is to ask these unruly students to hang cardboards with words written on it on their bodies and parade around school compound. You can imagine the impact on other students...............walking along corridors, car parks, field etc In time I think they get the messages that breaking rules have to pay. There is no free passage. The best is the teachers relationship with the students. It is there where disciplinary problem could be controlled.....

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