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SOME CAUSES OF INDISCIPLINE IN KUMASI HIGH SCHOOL
There have been cases of indiscipline in Ghanian schools which is worrying, to say the least. We have heard reports of students challenging their teachers, stealing from their fellow students, fighting, absconding from school among others.
This development is bizarre to both parents, teachers, and the school authority. Parent-Teacher meetings have been called to seek a resolution to this several times with little success.
Just last week, there was a fight among students and one junior secondary student used a bottle on his classmate which resulted in multiple cuts, lacerations which led to his comma and subsequent hospitalization.
One factor that gives rise to this level of indiscipline is the banishment of capital punishment to the pupils by the Federal Government. It can be traced that when teachers were still allowed to flog or punish erring students, things did not get as bad as this.
Another thing that has led to this level of indiscipline is the poor structural facilities of the school where one can see school walls broken down either by natural or man-made factors. This has made it easy for students to sneak out of school whenever they wish to and have an unlawful assembly with miscreants.
The most important factor of all, in my opinion, is the poor parental supervision of their wards. Recently, more parents are busy at work, having little time to supervise their children and their school work. They do not even know the type of friends they keep. Parents really can do better to see that their children are well monitored and guided.
