National Parents Association, (NPA) has decried rampant parenting responsibility neglect, urging parents in the country to effectively play their role of positive parenting instead of leaving the entire role to teachers and other people.
This was said by the Association National Chairman David Silas Obuhatsa who also warned parents that if they continue neglecting their children, then they will easily fall in various traps like early pregnancies, and drug and substance abuse.
“Parents must play their roles including positive parenting of their children so that by the time they get to high school, they are able to quickly tell what is good and what is evil. Most parents have left their children in the hands of teachers in schools and to strangers at home. This is one way of exposing the young ones to dangerous traps like what has been revealed at Alliance Girls High School,” said Obuhatsa.
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At the same time, Obuhatsa called on the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to ensure that Guiding and Counseling (G&C) programmes in schools especially at Senior School is fully implemented by teachers and further, train and post teachers or G&C professionals be accredited by the government specifically to handle the programmes.
“The commission should train and post guiding and counseling teachers in all schools across the country to help improve the discipline of learners and their teachers. It is also possible for the government to employ doctors and nurses as professional psychologists in schools to promote guiding and counseling of the school community including teachers, parents and learners,” he said.
He further suggested that parents being first teachers and role models for their children at home, they should also be trained as professional counselors to support G&C programmes in schools under proper supervision. He encouraged schools to embrace talking walls and sign posts that create positive values in learners while in the school compounds.
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Obuhatsa also called on schools’ Board of Management (BoMs) to fully implement government policies that protect learners while in school and take necessary measures for those who will break them, adding that parents will not tolerate those administrators that will fail to protect leaners in school.
“Parents will not encourage the Ministry of Education and TSC to keep school administrators and boards that fail to protect their learners and the school property. The Ministry should put strict measures in place that any principals and BoMs whose schools fall victims of any form of destruction must face the law,” he added.
By Roy Hezron
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