Students taking photos of teachers to barred from class

Jakarta (Indonesia Window) – Boy and girl students will be barred from attending classes for a maximum period of one month if they are found involved in taking photographs of male and female teachers without their knowledge, Saudi Gazette reported.

The students who face this disciplinary action can also be assigned to perform voluntary social work and that will be under the supervision of the Education Department after obtaining the approval of their guardian.

These disciplinary measures are contained in the Code of Conduct and Attendance issued recently by the ministry.

The violations were divided into six sections, which include the types of violations that may occur in schools, and their penalties are meant to address the behavioral problems in a phased manner.

The ministry specified in the code a number of steps that are to be taken by the school administration and the Education Department to detect and document the violation and impose the penalty on the violator.

Behavior disorders and violations of students have been divided into six degrees of breaches in accordance with their severity and impact.

The first-degree breaches include improper conduct during the morning assembly and not wearing uniform while the second-degree breaches include inciting mayhem in school or skipping classes and the like.

The third-degree violations are related to immoral conducts, negligence in performance of obligatory prayer as well as taking part in quarrels.

The code stipulates that the fourth-degree breaches include intentionally injuring a student, smoking inside the school and bullying.

As for the fifth degree breaches, they include possession of weapons and sharp tools, threatening schoolteachers or administrators or photographing them without their knowledge.

Among the sixth-degree breaches are mocking some of the rituals of Islam or be involved in cybercrimes or assaulting school staffers including teachers and administrators.

The ministry stated in the code that the school administration could summon the competent security authorities in case of necessity, after proving the breaches perpetrated by any of the students.

Reporting by Indonesia Window