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Don't let this one experience deter you from instilling discipline. Character development is one facet of child development that I don't joke with in my class and that is because the country is already a mess. To sour above this mess, the next generation has to come morally prepared.

richiemcgold:
All these anomalies can only happen in a private school. I'll keep saying it, proliferation of private schools in our primary and secondary educational system is more of a problem than a blessing. They can't correct and control the children. They can't even ask a poorly performed student to repeat a class. Everybody must be promoted at the end of the session. 🤥 WTF?

You said it all.

joyteachdaily:
so as her teacher I'm not qualify to do that? hmm

In overseas you don't ask kids to kneel down, that's a crime on it's own.

However, this is Africa and we believe in disciplining a child but this woke mentality everyone now has in tearing our culture apart. Next time just score her zero for the assignment

joyteachdaily:
so as her teacher I'm not qualify to do that? hmm

You are qualified to do that but Nigerian teachers love beating too much, they verge all their anger on innocent kids.
All my years as an ESL teacher in different Asian countries, I have not seen a kid beaten or asked to kneel down.
Most teachers in Nigerian doesn’t know what their jobs are all about, beating or any sort of punishment to kids below 8 years is a no no and at the end of the day, the teacher will end up giving a kid of 4 years 3 homework to do at home and I ask, what time will such kid have to play at home or those teachers doesn’t know that kids fun time helps on their daily growth?

muyico:
Why correcting her?? Were you assigned to disciplinary committee?? African is born to lies

See one of such parents....if at all he's a parent yet. Gen Z....Smh.

ambale:
Na people like you dey spoil the society

What happened to training your kid excellently??

You want your kid to misbehave but you don't want teachers to discipline them make this make sense abeg

Excellently you said?
By kneeling a baby of below 5 years outside in the sun?
Do you think that most teachers applies the same measures they are using for other people’s kids on theirs?
When it get to their kids, parents instinct will kick in.

If e reach your turn, allow others to dey practice with your kids.

ambale:
Totally doomed ooo, with this kind of parenting we are witnessing these days

No child will try rubbish under my watch sha

Do you mean that “no other people’s child will try rubbish under your watch”? Because I know that kids are meant to be kids and if e reach your kids, you won’t throw them away.

Do u know the definition of a teacher?try to it will help u

muyico:
No African pikin wey no dey lies, is traits! Do Ur job and go home, Ure employed to teach them ,

Do u know what it means to teach?

Olatara:
Like the guy above, you were paid to teach and not to discipline.

No dey stress yourself. If she doesn't do her home-work, document it and make it known to the school authority.

That's the schools and parent problem to deal with.

Kalvan:
After punishing that child, did you pull them aside and talk to them about why you punished them? Sure, superficially they may understand why they were punished, but children see things differently from how adults do, and as their teacher, you’re to make them understand the effects of their actions on their development, and why and how it ties to the punishment you meted out.

You could have also skipped the punishment and just given them a zero on the homework, and asked to talk to their parent(s) or guardian. As a kid, there were many times I was downright brutalized by sadists posing as teachers, who were just itching for a reason to practice their sadomasochist fantasies.

Just the point!
You must not beat a child or ask them to kneel under the sun, a child we are talking about.
Those people up there claiming that a child must be disciplined, how can we differentiate between a sadistic unmarried teacher that has an itching body abi don’t you guys know that some fellows are wicked naturally? It’s the parents right to also protect their wards.

Dididrumz:
I don't even have to read the post before answering. I was just talking to someone about this a few days ago, and what I'll say is this, parents are have a huge role to play when it comes to the rot in our society today. Parents stopped disciplining their children when they do wrong.

That's a huge problem , we're not in the west, we're in Africa, we are in Nigeria.

“We are not in the west, we are Nigerians”?
Does it mean that Nigerian kids are meant to be beaten like cows?

ednut1:
The current people running Nigeria and living in Nigeria were mostly raised by strict parents. Where did it lead us?

Just the point

Mrpojj:
My brother wetin parents dey do now, is so disappointing. You need to see my neighbors children. Its terrible

Stop condemning your neighbor’s children, yours maybe worst, no one sees their faults.

Jokerman:
Even Lagos state government has implemented it in government schools, that teachers cannot flog or discipline children anymore

They call it bullying

Our Nigerian teachers are also failing in doing what they are supposed to do, the basic activities a teacher is supposed to perform in the classroom before any teaching to build good relationships with the kids, teachers don’t do it.
How do you as a teacher expect to correct a child that’s scared of you?

When I was an ESL teacher teaching kids in Asia before any class, we must need to sing, dance, play, jump, have fun and others but in Nigeria here, a teacher will not have such time reason maybe because of their peanut salaries.

Teacher Joy stop wasting your time correcting spoilt children, the so-called parents would enjoy the monsters they made when the time comes. Focus on those who don't stress you.


Children are reflection of their parents, goat nor dey born dog.

The process left me with traumas.

I want to be the only one disciplining my ward.

being:
So hw should ur child be corrected?
U that went through same process, did u die.. parents are raising children who don't see adults as people to be deferred to hence they cannot receive wisdom from adults including their parents

How did the kid misbehave pls!
Because of not doing assignment!

Can't the teacher inform me!

ambale:
Na people like you dey spoil the society

What happened to training your kid excellently??

You want your kid to misbehave but you don't want teachers to discipline them make this make sense abeg

Yes. I will home-school my child with discipline. The teachers can do the book part.
Not dragging my ward to the mud because of just assignment!

Mariangeles:
Just imagine!

Maybe you should homeschool your child then.

I don't want any teacher to pour out his/her frustrations on my ward!

I don't need co-partnership in disciplining my child. Leave dat for me.

kindmman:
Clap for yourself, Mr Hulk Hogan. You should fly instead.

joyteachdaily:
Last week, something happened in my class that left me thinking deeply about parenting and discipline.

The truth of the matter is that most issues are not said the same way they happen and most of you teachers are not been truthful and sincere. Parents know teachers who are teachers and will dare not go and meet them when their children complains at home.

Beating children out of anger is wrong , slapping them and bullying them is wrong . You don't expect the parents to continue to look on while you kill their children. Most teachers nowadays lack common sense to manage little children . They lack the patience to listen to them and make necessary corrections. All they care for is punishment and and beatings. While they make blunders.

Don't forget this generation and what the challenges that comes with them. You could see an SS class student still glued to cartoons and games. But if you look deep you will notice that the problem they all have is age. They have all been pushed to higher classes ahead
of the age that should be in that class. Hence they see no repercussions in not taking certain instructions serious from their instructors except their that involves them to do group work, where they will joke and just and play a little bit.

Moreso, they could be mischievous and if care is not taken you keep applying the contact based punishment , they will continue to find excuses to report to their parents. A teacher once slapped my son twice for doing nothing and I called the principal who apologized on his behalf but could you imagine the teacher felt no remorse even when other teachers told him he was wrong, so you expect me to encourage him to do that and defend the ears of my son cos he has anger issues. No. He needs to go for a psychiatrist appointment before his matters goes out of hand.

uchman:
“We are not in the west, we are Nigerians”?
Does it mean that Nigerian kids are meant to be beaten like cows?

Disciplining kids isn't just about beating.

Being a teacher in this modern private school can be so draining, frustrating and exhausting
I have similar experience during my days as a teacher
I remember it even got to a stage whereby we have no right to correct or discipline them….. we only report them to the school principal, irrespective of what they did
The same parent who does not want you to correct their kids are still expecting those same kids to be exceptional
May God have mercy on this our generation parent

muyico:
No African pikin wey no dey lies, is traits! Do Ur job and go home, Ure employed to teach them ,

Imagine what you are saying, how will they learn what he is teaching without been disciplined to learn it??

muyico:
No African pikin wey no dey lies, is traits! Do Ur job and go home, Ure employed to teach them ,

Can an undisciplined child be taught?

weslay:
This kind of mindset is the reason why our society is witnessing this level of decay. How do you teach without discipline? Is teaching only related to books or academics?
The parents should continue. That same child will give them sleeplessness nights if they fail to do the needful now

Exactly.....

He doesn't know that teaching without discipline doesn't command learning.

Go and witness PTA meetings and see how parents complain that the teachers don't give assignments and follow up.

How will a child learn if she keeps missing on the assignments?

The structure of learning involves practice which is the home work.

Walklifeman:
I assume this is one of those posh schools. A lot of parents think high school fees mean the their children are special and any disciplinary actions should not apply to them. The schools are also not helping as they won't want to chase away high paying clients. It's best as a teacher to know the kind of school you are in and act accordingly.

The high paying clients are the reason the teachers go home with food pay...

Olatara:
Like the guy above, you were paid to teach and not to discipline.

No dey stress yourself. If she doesn't do her home-work, document it and make it known to the school authority.

That's the schools and parent problem to deal with.

Just kuku home school the child. So because you paid a teacher to teach now, the teacher can't discipline your child? And na same you as a parent go still complain say teachers don't do their work.

Love800:
I don't want any teacher to pour out his/her frustrations on my ward!

I don't need co-partnership in disciplining my child. Leave dat for me.

Mtcheeww. Chior..


Carry on shogbo

muyico:
No African pikin wey no dey lies, is traits! Do Ur job and go home, Ure employed to teach them ,

correcting is part of the teaching. Parent questioning a teacher why did he correct or discipline his child is causing more harm and hatred to the child.

a lady did it few weeks ago, you guyz were d1 advising d woman to get her arrested, no discipline someone pikin, nowadays, is call child abuse not discipline

latiephwald:
Some people talk as if they never passed through any form of discipline. A teacher correcting a pupil is doing the right thing, Only an empty skull would see that as wrong. People like that need to stay off this society before they ruin the next generation with their ignorance.
Imagine what you would've become if your parent fails like that pupil mother.