Where Is Safety in Our Schools?

How can a child at this age be exposed to all this violence? Where was his family? And where was school supervision?

In the end, the minister’s decision comes down to banning mobile phones, as if we are stopping the documentation of what happens inside schools rather than preventing it from happening in the first place.

Real Supervision Is the Answer

What we need today is not walls built around schools to block parents from seeing what happens inside, but real and effective supervision.

For years, we have called for the need to conduct periodic psychological evaluations for teachers, principals, and everyone who deals directly with children inside the educational institution.

In this way, schools are no longer a safe place for a child.

Where Is the Role of Parents?

This incident will not be the first and will not be the last, as long as there is no real supervision in schools, and as long as parents are left to complain without having a real role as an essential partner in supervising their children. Even the parents’ councils that used to represent this role have become absent and inactive.

If this situation continues, we will face a large wave of personality disorders and mental illnesses that will appear in society in the coming years.

Recommendation

Parents must be an essential partner with you in the educational process.

We recommend having a trained psychologist for every 6 classrooms.

As well as having online surveillance cameras through which parents can see what happens inside the classrooms, so their minds are put at ease, and so no mentally ill person dares to harm any student.

School must be a safe second home, not a source of fear.

Dr. Radwa El-Eriny

Published by Hany Sallam

Hany Sallam, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Scientific Magazine Ahram
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