Raymond Ablorh, a communication and Public Relations expert has bemoaned the rate of indiscipline in our schools.
According to him, there is so much indiscipline in our schools which brings to question the role of teachers beyond academic work.
For him, we have witnessed these challenges because we keep adopting external cultures without eclectic thinking about adaptation.
“We need to do a lot of thinking and stop accepting just everything in whole from international organisations merely because we need help from them.
There is so much indiscipline in our schools today that one wonders the role of teachers beyond academic work. And, it’s all because we keep adopting external cultures without eclectic thinking about adaptation.
Our goal should be about internalising discipline without mounting fear in children through abuse. This requires some creative thinking that wouldn’t make teachers extremely powerless and allow children wallow in permissiveness in the name of civilisation,” he said.
Read his opinion below
At a time where harsh economic conditions are throwing many parents and guardians out of homes limiting their child upbringing time with their children.
The correctional and reformational role of schools must be highlighted and improved to help shape the character of children in the face of growing permissiveness.
That requires a prudent balance between children right and disciplinary mechanisms in our educational system.
It isn’t everything we must learn and copy from the Western world. When we adopt, we must intentionally adapt to the new cultures in ways that improves our society so as to check the negative effects of their permissive culture.
We need to do a lot of thinking and stop accepting just everything in whole from international organisations merely because we need help from them.
There is so much indiscipline in our schools today that one wonders the role of teachers beyond academic work. And, it’s all because we keep adopting external cultures without eclectic thinking about adaptation.
Our goal should be about internalising discipline without mounting fear in children through abuse. This requires some creative thinking that wouldn’t make teachers extremely powerless and allow children wallow in permissiveness in the name of civilisation.
It seems to me that as a nation, we’re focused more on academic work and less on character development to the extent that we’ve no realistic policies that define the kind of citizen our nation needs to actualise her dreams and aspirations.
Children are like raw materials. The value we add to them through explicit and implicit socialisation determine the adult products they become.
So, yes, as the world gets smaller through technology and society becomes more permissive globally, we’ve a bigger challenge to shaping children.
Sadly, the family, the basic unit of society is breaking into pieces as extended families break into nuclear silos, marital challenges create more single parent homes and economic challenges take parents away from children.
Today, many children are bringing themselves up making television, internet and friends more powerful than parents and teachers.
Unfortunately, in the face of this thought-provoking reality, religious, spiritual and moral leadership has dwindled significantly and teachers have lost their “parental” role to discipline children in schools.
Elsewhere, children are shooting their mates, teachers and even parents after they destroyed their families and homes and schools and left the children on their own.
We need to start doing deep thinking about these things to shape our society.
President Ablorh.
