KILDONAN, CORENTYNE – Regional Vice President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Colin Bynoe is calling on the Education Ministry to make some changes to the system in order to better prepare secondary school students.Colin BynoeThese calls come in the wake of an ongoing investigation involving a teacher from the Berbice High School, Jeanne Jeffrey.The Union representative said that there is need for a comprehensive study as it relates to the behavioral pattern and the misdemeanor practices of students in secondary schools.This,Wholesale NFL Jerseys China, he said, would determine the rate at which indiscipline occurs and to identify alternative forms of punishment instead of corporal punishment, “Individual teachers would require special training in counseling.“Counseling is an area that is not easy. It calls for high levels of confidentiality, patience,Cheap Jerseys China, running of background checks of clients and putting all of this together in order to determine their behaviour pattern.”He added that the whole idea of counseling is a time consuming exercise, which if left to the subject teachers would take away from curriculum delivery.There is the need for a separate department in secondary schools to deal specifically with misdemeanors. This, he said, would reduce the disturbance of the curriculum delivery at the institutions.“Far too often head teachers and teachers have to be dealing with issues involving teachers and students during instruction time and this is not good.”Mr. Bynoe, a teacher with some 31 years of service, and Head Teacher of the Port Mourant Primary School, noted that there are several problems in the system,Cheap Jerseys From China, including the fact that a large number of children in the education system hail from single-parent families, many of which are on the poverty line.“Many of these children report to school on several occasions with their own domestic problems and this ripple down to other students in the class and even teachers, thus resulting frequently in problems.”He said that the matter of corporal punishment for learners must be properly addressed.“The Ministry of Education is giving the entire populace of Guyana the impression that it has been totally abolished – so many parents instill in the children that no teacher can discipline them. The children come into the school with that notion and act out. So when teachers try to reprimand them you have a problem.”Mr. Bynoe also spoke of those students who report for school but show precious little interest in their academic work.The foundation of any secondary student’s academic career begins at the Grade Seven level (first form) and goes on to the Grade Nine.This foundation takes them to the Grade 11 for the Caribbean Examination Council examination and other external examinations.“Several students waste taxpayers’ money – Don’t forget that some are given subsidy depending on what they would have done in Grade Nine and Ten, so the parents pay less for the CXC and the like examinations. Many of them waste time in Grade Eleven – the time they are expected to write the examination – and do not give the level of performance expected and in turn waste the taxpayers’ money, all because of the level of performance they would have given at these examinations.”He believes that a new system should be implemented, one that would ensure that parents repay the subsidy given by government if the child’s performance is not of a satisfactory standard when the final results are delivered.There is also the case of Grade Nine (third form) students where many are going through changes and are confused. “They are between that point where they shed their boyhood/girlhood and are now advancing towards thinking adult like. This brings about a state of confusion in their attitude and behaviour thus many of them end up in problems.”Given the fact that many of the teachers today are relatively young, some are not trained and do not have the experience and skills to deal with misdemeanors and offer counseling, problems occur.“What some teachers do when problems occur is that they moderate their zeal and draw their pay whilst others,Cheap NFL Jerseys, because of concern for the students, will seek to do something that in many cases is a violation of the tenets of corporal punishment in the schools.”The Ministry of Education distributed a document entitled ‘Maintenance of Order and Discipline in Schools/Alternative Form of Punishment’. In this book it categorically states that a head teacher can administer corporal punishment to students, or can identify a senior teacher to so administer such punishment in his