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‘Employ other measures to discipline students’

kehinde Oluwatayo

School managers in the country have been enjoined to employ other measures in disciplining students other than corporal punishment.

Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools ASUSS in the state, Mr Tajudeen Balogun who gave the advice during an interview with The Hope, stressed that this will prevent abuse resulting from corporal punishment.

According to him, children of nowadays are fragile and are not as strong as those of past years hence the need to be careful in correcting the children.

“Although, children of nowadays are fragile, they are strong in committing crimes and evil. The best way is to look for other ways of disciplining them”, he said.

Balogun who said words of mouth is a very strong weapon in disciplining children, stated that some students are pained more when they are talked to than being flogged.

“When you scold some children,  they feel more pain. What I do is when a child commits an offence and he or she feels that heaven will fall, I can just bring the him to sit in front of my table in the staff room during lunch break when others are playing and ask him to go after break.

“By the time you do that for some days and release him, they won’t want to misbehave again. Also, when a child misbehaves, a counselor can come in and give him advice.

“You can also make such a child your friend. Make him understand why he should behave well in school. You could make him do few errands for you, like asking him to bring your books from the staff room. You could ask him to get chalks from wherever it is kept. Such student will not want to misbehave, because he will not want to disappoint you,” he said.

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He called on parents to mind the way they behave to teachers when they visit their children’s schools adding that a parent who bullies a teacher in the presence of his child does not want that child to respect the teacher.

“Government should also be mindful of how they handle this  education for all policy. When you insist that no student must repeat, it encourages bad behaviours. When a child knows that he can be asked to repeat, he will sit tight and face his education.

“A child that is studious cannot at the same time be found where they are doing what is not conformed to the law of the school. So it is a way of curbing misbehaviour in students.”

According to Balogun, heads of schools in the state are complying with the law that teachers do not have the right to flog children except he is asked to do so by the principal which must be recorded in the log book of the school.

He also charged the state government to make fund available for proper monitoring of private schools that are operating without license.

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