Measures to curb abuse of teachers by students

JEDDAH – The Ministry of Education has set procedures and measures to reduce offending behavior of students toward teachers and administrators of schools at intermediate and secondary stages. The latest update of the bylaws for attendance and ethics, which was adopted by the ministry early this semester, included a list of all the negative behaviors of the most sensitive unlike the previous version, which used general language and did not explain the words of similar examples. The new bylaws were distributed to the schools management committees, guidance and counseling committees, and to the office of education director in the region and the committee on the issues of the students. The first procedure deals with writing and registering the school report on the incident and calling security authorities if the situation required, in addition to obtaining the device or tool related to the case and delivered. Then the guidance and counseling committee must meet right after the incident and study the conditions and circumstances then file an official and urgent report to the educational committee, Al-Watan said. A list of codes of conduct for students stressed the need to develop an educational program for offending students after the decision of the Director of Education according to a schedule that meets the students' status.