Lycée Technique Bilingue Charles Atangana: Principal says discipline reinforced as new school year underway.

The pedagogue who addressed students as they started the new school year harped on the need for them to be focused, work hard and above all be disciplined if they aspire to succeed.

“During the assembly this morning, we tried to educate them and emphasised that discipline will take the upper hand in this institution. We don’t want students loitering outside when they are supposed to be in class. We are taking dispositions to ensure that students shouldn’t be idle and surveillance will be reinforced,” Libomane said.

The school administrator extended gratitude to Minister Nalova Lyonga for increasing the number personnel in charge of discipline in the institution.

“We are sending words of gratitude to the Minister of Secondary Education who has added us personnel especially in the discipline department to permit us better improve discipline,” the Principal said.

Just on the first day of school resumption, some students were punished for committing varied crimes and the Principal justified this: “It is often said that the first step in class determines the school year. A student who doesn’t respect his/her teachers, discipline masters or Principal from the first day, we think it isn’t a good lesson for the others. That is why we have decided to be firm to make sure that the students understand the importance discipline”.

On a general note, Libomane Bienvenue said all the institution had taken necessary dispositions to ensure the students have a comfortable environment to take their lessons.

“We are happy to see that classes have resumed but before the resumption, we took dispositions to ensure that the students are in the best conditions. We are just from taking service and have made sure the environment is cleaned and the school given a facelift to the school so that the new students know that school has really resumed,” the administrator said.

According to the Principal, the main difficulty they had one the day of school reopening was with the very young students not able to easily settle down. 

“They are yet to really find their feet, there are some who don’t even know their specialty, so it comes back to us to orientate them,” he added. 

He said the teachers are fully ready to dish out lessons to the children, adding that they are out to make the institution remain a reference in the training of young Cameroonians.

The now Lycée Technique Bilingue Charles Atangana was created in 1960 as a private institution of learning. Thirteen years after its existence, the was retroceded to the state in 1973 and it operated as technical college. 

It was on August 17, 2012 that a Prime Ministerial Decree transformed the school to its present status of Lycée Technique Bilingue Charles Atangana.

Since the transformation took place, the institution has had six Principals. Libomane Bienvenu is in his first academic year as Principal of the school. He was formerly Principal of Lycée Technique Nkolbisson in Yaounde VI. 

This article was first published in The Guardian Post issue N0:3226 of Wednesday September 11, 2024