Union tells poorly dressed teachers to look smarter

PNG Teachers’ Association general secretary Ugwailubu Mowana said teachers need to dress better and more appropriately in the classroom.
He said they needed to dress according to their code because a lot of them were poorly dressed at work.
Mowana said teachers were no longer wearing proper work clothes and not showing proper appearance in front of students like they used to.
“These days, teachers are in the classrooms with long dreadlocks, unshaven, cut jeans and all sorts of clothes which are not proper in official hours,” he said.
“Teachers need to be good role models in front of their students through their dress codes.”
Mowana made the remarks during the announcement of the payment of their three per cent pay increase on Wednesday.
Teaching Service Commission chairman Baran Sori said recently that breach of professional and personnel code of conduct had brought mistrust, shame, disrespect and ridicule to the teaching profession.
“Teachers, you are role models to students and are expected to display high levels of behaviour and dress so that your good conduct will influence students, whom you teach to become good citizens,” he said.
“This is the virtue of your teaching profession.
“I remind teachers that parents have very high trust in you to take responsibility to care, protect and teach their children in your charge and any action contrary to this trust is bad for the teaching profession.”