Varied Measures To Curb Indiscipline

Some educational establishments use metal detectors to search students and visitors with bags before they enter the campus, as a measure to reduce violent indiscipline

One of the hard nuts to crack in school is how to eliminate undisciplined behaviours from students. At the beginning of the school year government, mission and lay private schools have set up or revised their regulations on the conduct of students and teachers.
The regulations were first of all sent to the Regional Delegation of Secondary Education for verification and adoption before their use in schools. They forbid deviant behaviours like unkempt hair, broken or torn uniforms, indecent dressing such as wearing uniforms that expose the laps or too narrow trousers and assorted wears. Others include late coming, absenteeism that directly affect the performance and effectiveness of the student. Those coming late are sent to the Discipline Master who refers to the regulation before meting out the punishment. It could be to withhold the student from attending the first lesson but ensure that he is sent to the class when the second lesson begins.
Parents will be informed in case their child has 30 hours absences from class or has perpetrated an act of violence. Last year at the Government Bilingual High School Nyalla, two students from the Lower Sixth and Form V Arts had a disagreement in which one of them was attacked with a razor blade. “We only discovered that the student had entered the campus with the weapon out of school hour and had hid it in class. Even before this incident, the same student had been slammed eight days suspension from school for another crime. He was dismissed after he and his parents were summoned to the Disciplinary Council,” Isaac Bernard Dime, Principal, told CT.
In some schools, disciplinary measures are not applied to the letter. It is when a student persists in indiscip...