Teachers have been asked to be good role models in a bid to eliminate unrest among students and ensure conducive learning environments in schools.
Addressing journalists at a hotel in Athi River Town, renown mentor and educationist, Joel Owang' said teachers were partly to blame for the increased child indiscipline experienced in schools within Machakos County.
"Teachers should be good role models to the children they teach so as to ensure discipline among the children," said Owang'.
Owang' claimed tat a majority of teachers from the region were bad role models to the children they teach.
He cited instances where teachers publicly misbehave whenever they strike.
Owang' said it was not easy to convince children to evade engaging in drug and substance abuse or getting into illicit relationships that could prevent them from realising their dreams in life, when the same teachers who teach them are drunkards and even have sexual relationships with students.
According to him, student strikes which have led to burning down of schools and even death of fellow children can be stopped if teachers become more serious in their work and behave in a resonponsible manner whenever they are around their students.
Owang' said the government should be keen on discipline of teachers and interdict those who do not abide by the code of ethics to save children from calamities which befell them due to irresponsible teachers.