How to curb indiscipline, by expert

A SCHOOL proprietress has an answer to indiscipline among pupils: the carrot-and-stick approach. Unity High School (UHS) proprietress Mrs. Olufemi Akanni, at the 10th anniversary of the school in Abuja, said: “There is a high level of indiscipline in our schools now. I urge teachers to use the carrot and stick approach because that is what teaching entails. No student is too big to be disciplined. Any child who doesn’t want to be disciplined should leave.”

Mrs. Akanni explained that the approach will create better youths that will build this country and take it to where it ought to be.

Also speaking, the Director, Guidance and Counseling Unit of the FCT College of Education, Zuba, Dr. Elizabeth Abolarin urged the society to value teachers as she described their profession as greater to none.

Mrs. Abolarin said: “No other profession is greater than teaching.  Without the teachers, there will be no engineers who will plan, design and manage the construction of buildings, roads, bridges, communication facilities and other mechanical infrastructures.

Similarly, doctors, scientists, politicians and others will not exist without the teacher and the teaching process.

She pointed out that teachers mold a child into what he or she will be in the future; as they teach him or her to read, write, to deal with others and to deal with himself or herself.

While stating some of the challenges encountered in teaching profession, she noted that good hands in the profession are quitting because of low reward.

“Though teaching has attracted quite a number of young people in recent years, today, many of the most creative and brilliant educators are leaving the profession.  Also, there is increased classroom size and very high students to teacher’s ratio.

“Great teachers receive far less than they are worth and the economic well-being of the teacher has been broken down by the global and national economic downturns,” she said.

She, however, advised teachers to provide students with the highest quality of education possible.

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