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GES introduces revised unified code of
conduct
Takoradi, April 3, GNA- Mrs Rebecca Dadzie, Western Regional
Director of the Ghana Education Service (GES), on Tuesday
said the service has introduced a Revised Unified Code of
Conduct to enforce discipline among its staff and students
at schools.
She stated this in an address read for her at the Induction
of new prefects and awards day of Bompeh Secondary Technical
School at Takoradi.
The Day was under the theme "A Disciplined Student and A
Motivated Teacher: Hallmark For Academic Excellence".
Mrs Dadzie said the code has been effective in combating
indiscipline at schools and many school administrations have
been applying its tenets.
She said discipline is essential if teaching and learning in
schools are to be effective.
Mrs Dadzie said, "If we accept the idea that a quiet
atmosphere promotes learning, it follows that any breach of
that atmosphere is not be tolerated".
Mrs Dadzie said it is the teacher's moral duty to keep peace
in the classroom because it is by this means that students
develop the proper moral character.
She advised the new prefects to foster harmonious
relationship between the school authorities and students and
to perform their roles diligently to project the positive
image of the school.
Mr. Maxwell Ayuub Morgan, Shama-Ahanta East Metropolitan
Director of Education, said student discipline and staff
motivation are basic requirements for academic excellence.
He asked the prefects to maintain discipline among the
student population and to promote peer counselling, identify
recalcitrant students, lead lives worthy of emulation and
never condone wrongdoing even among their friends.
Mr. Morgan said the staff of the school must show the way by
being disciplined, adding, "As teachers let us be united in
curbing indiscipline of all forms".
He said staff absenteeism breeds student indiscipline and,
"If a teacher is not committed to his duties and does not
mark exercises, is not fair and firm with students and if he
condemns his colleagues in the presence of students, such a
teacher would be promoting indiscipline".
Mr. Morgan said parents should co-operate with teachers in
promoting and maintaining discipline and avoid quarrelling
and fighting with them when they try to correct their wards.
Mrs Aba Smith, Headmistress of the school, said the school
obtained 95 per cent pass in last year's West Africa Senior
Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSSCE).
She said the school also performed creditably in the 2006
Science and Mathematics Quiz at its first appearance and has
been invited to participate again this year.
Mrs Smith commended the school's Parent-Teacher Association
(PTA) for providing accommodation for teachers, establishing
a computer laboratory and purchasing a school bus.
Mr. Joseph Quansah, a retired Metropolitan Director of
Education, who presided, urged parents not to look down on
the school because it is a community institution.
He said students are receiving the same education as their
counterparts in well-endowed schools.
Mr. Quansah called on the community, companies and business
establishments to assist the school to develop.
GNA
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