Improving education standards in Guyana
DEAR EDITOR,
Allow me to touch on an important topic affecting children across our country, but before I leave let me praise the students and educators for learning new techniques and developing themselves technologically during this pandemic. The playing field is leveled and the opportunity to develop education into first world methods has presented itself.
The burning issue I want to share is one that students suffer at the hands of some educators at all levels of learning. Students are verbally and emotionally abused by their educators. This may sound harsh and ungrateful but that is the truth. Many students, including myself, tolerated and tolerated it, for fear of persecution. But, I firmly believe that the time has come when educators from nursery to university must be aware of what they are saying and how it is being said ; how they act and how they react; what they believe and what is socially acceptable.
Children of this age are aware of themselves, their emotions, their sexuality and their rights.
Educators must do better in treating their students with the same respect that they expect these students to give them. Students should never feel threatened by their educators, students should never feel depressed because of their educators, educators should not show favor, and should not humiliate students or their gender preference, they should not disappoint students or talk openly for their shortcomings.
I plead with our educators to create an environment that allows students to express themselves openly, their views, their gender preference, their religious beliefs, and the like. The time has come for education to evolve, every other sector has! We cannot control and discipline like in the 1960s.
Anxious Parent