Child Negligence In Education

This essay will be based on an incidence that happened to some matriculants who were taken to a mortuary as a form of punishment. So the aim of this essay is to prove that child negligence occurred that resulted in negative situations that lead to traumatic consequences for learners, as well as their rights being infringed by the perpetrators .The South African Schools Act (84 of 1996) states No educator, parent, learner or any other person may possess or use alcohol, drugs, illegal substances or dangerous objects during any school activity. So those learners violated that rule because they had alcohol with them during their educational trip but however the learners are supposed to be safe and not to be maltreated. The teachers are supposed

Negligence plays a big role in the learner’s lives as they sometimes ignore the warnings that they get from their elders. So being ignorant can get one into a serious trouble as most of the children put their faith in their friends more than they do to their parents and teachers. Peer pressure is the most concern in our young generations as they rather do what their friends tells them to do and ignore what the teachers and their parents are saying. I say this because the same mistake of peer pressure happened to the Grade 12’s of Crystal Springs Combined School in Polokong .Some of the learners from that school had an alcohol with them and they refused to tell who had sold them the alcohol and so the headmaster took them to the Sebokeng police station (Anon., 2011). In terms of Section 61 of the South African Schools Act (1996) no educator, parent or learner, and no other person, may possess

The teachers failed to act on their duty by warning the learners about the dangers of alcohol and the consequences that will take place if they are found with alcohol during the trip, and they did not act towards their duty of making sure that no harm will take place when the principal handed the learners over to the police, they failed to act in the place of the parents as they are required to do. Teachers must always act as the in loco parentis at all times regardless where the teaching takes place like for example the learners were taking an educational trip so the teachers must have done their part in guiding the learners through that whole experience rather than letting the learners experience new things on their own. The teachers were supposed to search the learner’s bags to make sure that no illegal drugs or alcohol is found. I believe there is no free time for teachers as they must always be on the lookouts. Their duty must not only be on the school premise. So I think the principal distanced him or herself from the principle of in loco parentis as no parent can let her children go through what those poor learners went through. I think the principal was not prepared to hear the learner’s side of the