The Ntungamo District Education Officer Ntare Dennis has commended schools for introducing peer-led judicial programs aimed at fostering discipline and conflict resolution within the school community.
Addressing parents during the PTA annual general meeting at Standard College Ntungamo, Ntare appealed to parents to cooperate with teachers to inculcate discipline into children rather than shielding them.
He hailed the founders and management of Standard College Ntungamo for being the first school in the district to initiate the Student Court system to promote leadership, personal responsibility, a sense of community and empowering students while addressing behavioural issues constructively.
The head teacher Standard College Ntungamo Luyimbazi Boaz noted that Student courts in school or youth court is a student -led system where students judge fellow students for minor cases, offering them charges as a way of administering discipline in schools before forwarding a case to the administration.
Luyimbazi told parents that student courts will teach students about justice and court issues, and will empower them with confidence to solve their issues amicably with or without a teacher to avert indiscipline cases that can result in school strikes.
The parents’ representative Naturinda Saviour Nalongo thanked the head teacher and staff for such an initiative and asked parents to be keen on their children’s discipline during holidays.
