Dear Editor,
Rules are important, in my opinion, for society to function orderly. It is necessary that the school, I think, offers children opportunities to adhere to rules so that an inclination towards respect for needed rules exists.
In Jamaica, the school in which I was employed had rules. One of these rules was that no student could walk on the strip through a small garden to reach the corridor leading to the office and the Princi-pal’s office. This I know was done to have the children abide by rules, silly or not. In Guyana, schools as far as I know have rules. One of these defines the hairstyle of the child. A child breaching therefore was not punished for the hairstyle. The child was called to account for not complying with a rule.
The Ministry of Education has decided to remove accountability of conformity to this rule by eliminating it. The new rule is that the child does not have to adhere to the once established rule. The child then is obeying the new rule by discarding the old so the child can now be called into account for not having an anyhow hairstyle which is unlikely. So a rule has been removed and replaced by a new rule, any hairstyle goes. The child still is having exposure to following a rule governing hairstyle. Next may go the uniform and the expected footwear then the rules governing the learning situation.
Sincerely,
Krishna Nand Prasad
Deputy Headmaster (Former)
Patentia Secondary School
