Save yourself from trouble, do not do cane to students

General News on Thursday, January 31, 2019

Source: citinewsroom.com

2019-01-31

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has asked its members not to go against the directive of the Ghana Education Service (GES), which prohibits them from beating their students.

According to the badociation, it is in their interest to scrupulously respect the order and to preserve it from any punitive measures that the service is likely to take against them.

The GES recently asked all schools to immediately adopt a new set of disciplinary tools with alternative sanctions as a correctional measure for students in non-canned schools.

In what has been received with mixed reactions, however, many have supported the decision accusing teachers of going to the extreme to check the inappropriate behavior of their students.

But NAGRAT President Angel Carbonu, who believes that the use of corporal punishment to discipline the child is the way forward, warned teachers to be wary of the sanction that the GES will take against them.

Speaking on the show The Point of View of the CITI TV channel, Mr Carbonu said the badociation had no choice but to welcome the Order, to respect it and to allow posterity to judge the results.

"In the new teacher code of conduct, it is clearly stated that when a teacher beats a student, he will be referred to the discipline committee according to the seriousness of the situation. I therefore call on my teachers that, at the time of our conversation, corporal punishment is prohibited. If you are a math or English teacher, go to school and teach, take your books, and go out so that you will not be brought to court for beating their child so that you are saved. "

"The conclusion that teachers encourage students to do stupid things irresponsibly [problematic]. Although we know that there are excesses, we will not oppose the ban. We will welcome any disciplinary approach provided by GES, but the outcome will determine whether it is good or not, "he said.

Cultural ways of discipline

Reacting to claims that most foreign countries have long since put an end to this form of corporal punishment, the President of NAGRAT rejected these comments, saying it was clear that Ghana could contextualize its way of thinking. 39, improve discipline.

"To discipline a child must be placed in a social context. This should reflect the type of society in which we find ourselves. It will not necessarily be effective to implement the prescription of a Western society in our environment, because we will not achieve the same result. So we should find a practical way to correct the deviants in our society because they are specific to society, culture and traditions. Whenever Western donors realize that beating them is a way of disciplining a child, they feel a little weird. "

"There are people who abuse by hurting children. However, there are also many people who have been straightened by teachers with difficult hands. As a people, we can examine our cultural realities and contexts and develop a way to correct deviant behaviors so that they are effective because the final results of the Western world have nothing to do with them. 'admirable,' said Angel Carbonu.

GES urges parents to deal with any teacher who beats their child

Parents whose children come back from school with signs of canning are free to treat their teachers ruthlessly.

The director of the Guidance and Counseling Unit of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Ivy Kumi, who has laid this charge, insists that putting students on can without using the approved alternative sanction provided by the GES amounts to aggression. about the teacher in question in such a case.

Ms. Kumi said, "Parents can see it, because caning and all other corporal punishment is a form of abuse. If a teacher beats a child and that he has marks on the body, it is an abuse. The student has been beaten and the parent can decide to report to the police. "