Don’t show disrespect to teachers - Educationist

Parents have been urged to solidly stand with teachers every step of the way as they work hard to ensure that children receive not only the right tuition but good character training.

Madam Mavis Agyapomaah, an officer at the Ejisu-Juaben Municipal Education, with responsibility for private schools, condemned instances where some parents insulted and physically attacked teachers for enforcing discipline among erring school kids and said that must stop.

She was speaking at a graduation ceremony held by the Mercy Angels Educational Complex at Adako-Jachie.

The conduct of some the parents tend to embolden pupils and students to be spiteful and disrespectful and these are bad traits, which are clearly unhelpful to education career development, she said.

Madam Agyapomaah underlined the need for all to accept to be disciplined in their actions and to stick to the right procedures to get whatever problems they might have, resolved.

“It is important for all stakeholders to recognize the primacy of working together to help children to achieve academic excellence and live within the norms of acceptable social behaviour,” she said.

She reminded the teachers to uphold professional ethics to earn for themselves and the teaching profession public support, confidence and respect.

Madam Agyapomaah praised the private sector for its significant contribution to the development of the country’s education and asked that they did everything to operate within the Ghana Education Service (GES) guidelines.

Madam Mercy Ofori-Atta, the Proprietress, appealed to parents put premium on the education of their children to assure them of a better future.