PREMIUM
Education
Public humiliation of teachers undermines learning in schools
“Yogela, nja kukuba oluyi [I will slap you]. Speak louder,” the parent is heard barking at the teacher as he continues to read the apology. As the teacher continued to read, the man further humiliated him by ordering, “Yanguwa (Hurry). You are not apologising to the headteacher, but to the person that you beat, the student.” When the teacher completed reading the statement, he mockingly told him, “Good boy!”
Pupils being caned at a school in Masaka district. Caning is one of the sources of parent-teacher clashes.
By: Richard Ategeka, Journalist @New Vision
HABIT BREEDS DISRESPECT
In many schools across Uganda, teachers are facing it rough from parents for administering punishments to learners. Although teachers sometimes go overboard,