Screenshot from a video showing a Pembroke Hall High School teacher threatening to harm a student. the problem of school indiscipline seems to be no different. Thompson cited in Lochan (2010) states that administrators, teachers and parents have been struggling to find solutions to the problem. Research shows that various discipline problems exist among primary . Poor classroom control contributes to indiscipline published: Sunday | May 21, 2006. Other aspects of the model involve in-school suspension, as against sending students home for several days. “Rather than training the guidance counsellors, the deans of discipline and principals, we train the entire school in how to administer discipline in a positive way; even the ancillary staff,” he said. “While these are serious, Cabinet should note that of the almost 700,000 students enrolled in Jamaican schools, only a fraction, including many teenaged girls, are involved in violent behaviour. St. Catherine based teacher Rhonda Williams Cooke A St. Catherine based teacher has given a first hand account of the challenges she and her colleagues are experiencing dealing with indiscipline in the classroom. Tel: 1 (876) 926-3590-4 1 (876) 926-3740-6. These disruptive behaviours are many and varied and are causing serious concerns to all stakeholders in education. Indiscipline is the route to anarchy. The information curb students’ indiscipline in school would be highly welcomed by the government, educators, parents, teachers . Photo retrieved from www.bogwalkhighschool.org. schools had cases of pupil indiscipline. Journal of Education and Practice www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) Vol.6, No.22, 2015 65 and school administrators. Journal of Education and Practice www.iiste.org ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) Vol.7, No.6, 2016 165 school pupils in Kenya. Patrick Phillips, Principal of Enid Bennett High. ABRIKIAN . Principal of Enid Bennett High School in Bog Walk, St. Catherine, Patrick Phillips, has promised to put measures in place to improve discipline at the institution, adding that his school is not the only one where indiscipline has worsened. The study was a descriptive survey and the sampled size consisted of ten (10) teachers and sixty (60) students. The purpose of this study was to explore the causes and effects of students’ indiscipline in Gumani Junior High School. Jamaica has become a most undisciplined society with little regard for the rule of law. Indiscipline has increased all across society, including church, school, police, parliament, and general governance. The teaching In Jamaica, the school is recognized as a major socializing agent for children, and teachers are held in the highest esteem by families and children. Email: Send us your query Curbing students' disruptive behaviours in Jamaican secondary schools: Author: Ezenne, Austin: Abstract: In recent years, the media have been reporting an increase in students' disruptive behaviours in secondary schools in Jamaica. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE resolution practitioner Janilee Abrikian believes the incidence of violence in schools is being exaggerated, arguing instead, that better classroom management by teachers is needed to controlmisbehaviour by student. Stabbings, killings, weapons, assaults, fearful teachers and parents and a public in panic (in many areas) are features of life in many school communities. Without discipline and prudence life can indeed become ‘nasty, brutish and short’. Office: 58a Half Way Tree Road, Kingston 10 Jamaica, W.I. Administrators, policy-makers, teachers, parents and the public at large have been struggling to find solutions to the problem of indiscipline in schools. 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