LEARNERS’ ABUSE UNDERMINES TEACHING AND LEARNING

Sir,

I want to appeal to the public about the behaviour of most teachers that has attracted negative publicity in recent times.

Teachers are the most frustrated national civil servants because they have to deal with unruly behaviour of many learners from diverse backgrounds.

The behaviour of many teachers that include sexual, verbal, physical and emotional abuse of minors or learners undermines the teaching fraternity and its agendas.

In that regard, the Ministry of Education’s overseeing body of TSC must take drastic measures to curb this unbecoming spate of bad behaviour among teachers.

To my fellow colleagues of teachers across the kingdom of Swaziland, I urge that prudence, circumspection and maturity be exercised at all times, especially at work.

Every teacher must remember that teaching is a calling.
It is a predestined and predetermined profession that only accommodates people who are psychologically, emotionally and physically determined to positively impact the lives of future leaders, technologists, scientists, the list goes on.

It is imperative to teach learners like the parent components or substitutes that we are.
There are many forms of abuse that are normally overlooked and are criminalised by this country’s laws.

It is important that educators are all aware of such criminalised acts and take drastic acts towards evading them and their repercussions thereafter.
There are many symptoms of redundancy and unnecessary comfort among teachers, manifested along with the tendency of reading the work books and textbooks of learners and forgetting to read the books that governs the behaviour, regulate professionalism and persecute unauthorised behaviour at work, such as the Education Policy, National Constitution and National Government Gazettes.
These must be the Bibles that educators live by.

It is worth highlighting though that, just like there is no sin more justifiable than another, there is no abuse considered less harsh than another.
In the same way, acts or tendencies of the members of the public of condoning such abusive behaviours with the sole purpose of protecting teacher-learner intimacy for future gains, must be persecuted by national criminal laws.

Any hints of abuse among learners or teachers as well, must be dealt with using extreme caution.
Isolated cases of learner abuse reported, including recent reports of learner bullying and near fatal injuries as well as nude or half-naked parades (as forms of punishment) must be convicted and criminalised.

Cyclone M. Gama

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