Punishment Reform, Ban On School Graduation Ceremonies Form Topics As Anambra Information, Education Commissioners Meet
By Joseph Egbeocha
The Commissioner for Education in Anambra State, Dr. Ekene Ogugua, has hinted at a reform that will ensure that punishment in schools helps in achieving positive attitudinal changes in children while taking into consideration the provisions of child rights laws.
Giving the hint when he received his counterpart in the Ministry of Information and Value Reformation, Dr. Law Mefor, on a courtesy visit at the Jerome Udorji State Secretariat, Awka, Dr. Ogugua welcomed partnership between the two ministries, and with other groups and individuals, to achieve Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s set objectives in the education sector.
On ban on graduation ceremonies in schools, the Education Commissioner said only the SS3 class is exempted from the directive, and warned that school children and or parents should not be made to bear any financial burden.
Earlier in his remark, the Commissioner for Information and Value Reformation, Dr. Mefor, described education as one of the bastions of the Soludo administration and key to driving its pillars of development.
He explained that the visit was to seek ways of partnering with the Ministry of Education to achieve common goals.
Dr. Mefor described punishment as important in achieving positive attitudinal changes, but called for its modification to achieve the best outcome.
He emphasized that infrastructural and human capital development must go hand in hand in achieving set goals, adding that Governor Soludo wants enforcement-driven value reformation in order to achieve moral and ethical rebirth in Anambra.
