Effects Of Teachers' Unethical Conduct On Primary Pupils' Academic Performance In Temeke Municipal Council, Tanzania

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted in TEMEKE municipal council, Dar-es-salaam Tanzania. The

purpose of the study was to examine the effects of teacher unethical conduct on primary

pupils' academic perfonnance. .

A total number of 259 respondents were involved as follows;

Pupils

Officers

Teachers

Male

91

6

11

female

109

11

31

total

200

17

42

Data was collected using questionnaires and oral interviews. The forms of ethical conduct

included teachers, pupils sexual relationships, teachers' selling things like breads, sweets

in classrooms, teachers making pupils especially girls as their cook by commanding them

to cook for them tea or sending them for short e1Tands during school hours.

The effect of such an ethical conduct included; poor perfmmance in SUillillative and

fonnative tests, pregnancy in early age, poor academic evaluation and bad relationship

between the teacher and the pupils.

It was thus recommended that the TSD department of teacher should enforce the law and punish the culprits severely so as to serve reformative and deterrent purposes; to teachers' pupils' relationships and ethical conducts of teachers.