Teachers must improve in their dressing

The District Director of Education for the Akuapem South District, Mrs. Judith Esther Offeibea Donkoh has entreated teachers to improve on their dressing to school. “All your dressing should be decent for the children to learn, because children learn from you their teachers more than their parents”, she observed. Obviously taking the female teachers on, she explained that teaching is a noble profession and teachers should uphold its integrity. Certain style of dressing that paints the teacher in a bad light and goes to distract their students should be shunned. She advised the younger female teachers to desist from wearing tight dresses, short skirts, tops that exposes their breasts, and overly using make ups to school. Such modes of dressing divert the attention of the pupil’s from what is being taught in the classroom to the dressing of the teacher. She made these comments as the first Speech and Prize Giving Day of the Aburi Presbytarian Junioh High School. Mrs. Offeibea Donkor also addressed the need for parents to play their part in the education of their children. She outlined that parents should also put up behaviours that are worthy of emulation. “As parents what are we doing to reinforce the quality of education we want our wards to attain”, she said. She entreated parents to up hold high moral standard since what they do at home are imparted onto their children. “Parents should be more careful of the morals they impart onto their wards”, she warned. The Education Director further called on parents to visit their children’s schools in order to ensure that their wards are receiving quality education and training needed to secure a better future. “By so doing, they will know the progress being made by their children in school”, she added. She explained that “the qualities we want (in education) begins right from the home; what they eat, wear, where they sleep should all be of concern”. “Lack of parental care and control usually prevents the child from getting good grades in school”, she added. Mrs. Offeibea Donkor cautioned that if quarrelling indiscipline is portrayed in the community, the children will imitate, because these act will be perceived to be good since their parents are doing same. The maiden event was under the theme “Quality Education, Our Pride” and it welcomed personalities like the District Chief Executive Hon. Winston Afari Gyan, a representative of the Member of Parliament, Hon O.B. Amoah, District Director of Education, some parents of the pupils, headteachers within the Aburi circuit, Marketing Manager for Latex Foam, teachers, and some old students of the school. The barely five year old school was established to reduce the pressure on the Demonstration Junior High School. The Headmistress, Mrs. Vida Nkansah Kyeremanteng of the school called on all stakeholders to play their part in improving the quality of education in the school.