RESPECT yourselves, we have reports that some teachers ask school children to carry food for [their] lunch, Livingstone Mayor Constance Nalishebo Muleabai advises teachers. Responding to a call for respect towards teachers by union representative Chinimbwa Milimo, who is Livingstone Chairperson for the National Union of Private Educators of Zambia (NUPEZ), Muleabai said teachers must stop unprofessional behaviour if they want society to respect them. “Teachers are calling for respect, but we are saying this must start with themselves. We have received reports in our offices where pupils have been intimidated, humiliated in the presence of other pupils, taking away their confidentiality, and pride, and teachers did nothing about it,” Muleabai said. “We are also in receipt of reports that...