For the second time, some teachers have posted on social media video of kids with diction challenges out of derision.
The posts are so despicable some parents were unable to watch the videos to the end. The first one occurred some months ago and originated from the Northern Region. In that particular one, the pupil showed signs of pronunciation shortcomings which his teacher found funny and put out on social media.
The latest such irresponsible post is from the southern Ghana the exact location of which it is difficult to tell.
A young girl’s rendition of the “Lord’s Prayer” is fraught with misrepresentations and this a teacher decided to post on social media. Why should a teacher or whoever was responsible for the post do this to the child who has just started the academic learning process?
Both the parents and the children being embarrassed will be emotionally hurt with such posts yet teachers who are expected to encourage them to learn have not thought about such implications and joined the social media bad guys with such stuff.
Many who managed to watch the video wished the teacher responsible for the posts is identified, counseled and punished for the irresponsible and unprofessional conduct.
The cyber policing authorities should be able to determine the source of the posts and the necessary punitive action taken.
Children vary in their rate of absorption of what they are taught at school each of whom also show characteristics of their homes and the general environment in which are being brought up. This accounts for the peculiar manner in which some of them pronounce words and the like. This should not constitute a source of derision by smart phone- clutching teachers who are quick to video the shortcomings of pupils and disseminate same on social media.
Teachers as representatives of parents within the school ambience should encourage the kids under their care by doing all they can to motive them to learn.
That child eagerly reciting the “Lord’s Prayer” with faltering diction has just commenced the learning process and will improve with time. With time the initial shortcomings in diction will give way.
The remark that every child is endowed with a God-given talent holds true and when properly managed at both school and home such natural endowments will stand out.
The ethics which debars us from exposing the visage of children in the face of negative occurrences holds true in issues which have the tendency to embarrass kids also. We are appalled and ask that the teacher behind the post is identified soonest and to encourage school heads to stop teachers from videoing pupils for the purpose of derision.