Teachers’ Alcohol Addiction and Its Effects in Promoting a Friendly and Productive School Climate

Abstract

The learning environment that promotes fairness, justices, safety, and general wellbeing of the child can be termed a child friendly and productive school. Administrators recognize that alcohol abuse and addiction amongst school teachers are threats to fundamental peace, effective leadership, and friendly and productive organizational school climate. This poses a barrier to educational goal achievement. To achieve the goal of obtaining conducive and organizational friendly climate, the teachers need to be drug free and in an emotional stable state to plan, organize, direct and carry out teaching and learning in a friendly and productive school climate in an effort to achieve desired individual and group objectives with optimum efficiency and effectiveness. This study is a descriptive survey. Four research questions and three hypotheses guided the study. The participants were purposefully selected from teachers in Agbor metropolis, Delta, Nigeria. The sample consists of 73 teachers. A structured questionnaire designed in a five-point Likert scale format was analyzed using the mean, standard deviation and Chi Square to analyze the generated research questions and hypotheses. The results show that there is significant difference between male and female teachers’ alcohol consumption, and teachers’ alcohol abuse affect very negatively school climate and learning environment. Alcohol consumption by teachers can induce disorganization, ill health and promote levity which might inhibit a friendly and productive school climate.