- Following instructions for improving the state of discipline in schools have been laid down :(a)Seminars of Headmasters/Principals should be organised in which common problems of discipline should be discussed from a constructive point of view. To these seminars should be invited Commissioners and District Officers also. The seminar should be small consisting of not more than 40 or 50 Headmasters/Principals and should be considered as important as the seminars on method of teaching, etc.(b)Delegation of responsibility for maintenance of discipline to students should be encouraged. This can be done by such methods as (i) institution of well conceived House system, (ii) information of students' council for the maintenance of discipline in the institution as a whole with provision for juvenile court of Honour. A House may consist of a group of about 20 or 25 students under a teacher responsible with special responsibility with Monitors who may be selected for not only academic distinction but qualities of character. The court of honour and the students' council for discipline have also to be formed with care and to be encouraged on an experimental basis.(c)Every school should entrust certain duties in relation to the school programme to the students. This has been attempted in some Basic Institution by offering "Ministers". There being a "Minister" in charge of libraries, another of garden and third of school sanitation and fourth for maintenance of certain articles and of crafts and fifth of games and another for reception and showing visitors, etc. If, however, such "Minister" is assisted by a few other students selected by htm there should not, however, be any election and the "Minister" should be selected by the teachers sitting jointly under the Presidentship of the Headmaster/Principal.(d)Every school building requires maintenance and improvement. It should be possible for the Headmaster/Principal and teachers to mobilise the enthusiasm and energies of the students into proper care of the school premises, the laying down of the garden, the putting up of open air theatres, the levelling of play ground and other works requiring some major and small material. This labour should be put in on a purely voluntary basis and later on its scope can be extended to the community in the neighbourhood or elsewhere.(e)The Boy Scouts and Girl Guides movement about which instructions have been issued from time to time by the State Government needs to be given encouragement in every school, and Its organisation should form an important part of the programme.(f)These and other steps, taken for improving the tone of discipline and for providing other avenues for the expression of the knowledge of the pupils and for the development of their character, would not be wholly effective unless the Headmaster/Principal and the teachers take into account the participation by a pupil in these activities at the time of the annual promotion. In the general assessment of the pupils there should be a special mention of participation in these activities and it should be made clear to all the boys at the end and beginning of every quarter that account will be taken of these activities.(G.O. no. 3033, dated the 1st June 1955.)
