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Thursday, February 12, 2004
Pail incident prods council to seek training for teachers
By Linette C. Ramos
EDUCATION officials in Cebu City must retrain public school teachers on how to discipline their students without hurting them, the City Council said during its session yesterday.
The councilors said training is necessary for the teachers to avoid last Monday’s incident where a Cebu City Central School teacher allegedly hit a “naughty” student.
Nine-year-old Eljer Dungog suffered a cut in the head after his teacher, Mrs. Villesolde Borlasa, hit him with a broken pail for misbehaving.
Councilor Gerardo Carillo proposed a resolution asking the Cebu City Commission for the Welfare and Protection of Children to look into the incident.
Not necessary
But Councilors Jocelyn Pesquera and Manuel Legaspi said an investigation is no longer necessary since it is already a closed case.
School officials and the school’s grievance committee already resolved the matter,
Legaspi said.
“So we will just ask the Department of Education to provide a remedy to this problem by retraining their teachers on how to handle students without punishing them. We have to make sure it does not happen again,” Carillo said.
He has received several reports that there are also teachers in other schools who punish and hurt their students.
Pesquera said the students’ rights can be protected without necessarily focusing on the City Central School incident.
“Things have been resolved already so let us just leave it that way rather than make a big issue out of this case,” she added.
(February 12, 2004 issue)
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