Rogue students should face the law

ANY student found guilty of being involved in school cult practices or being in possession of any illegal substance such as drugs or homebrew should be trialed in court.
If they want to become renegades, they should be treated as lawbreakers.
Good-natured and long-term preventive measures are needed to fully eliminate this issue.
Tougher penalties should also be applied and hopefully serve as a deterrent.
Corrective measures start at home but what we are experiencing doesn’t speak much about it.
Existing laws need to be revisited.
All disciplinary cases should be dealt with by the school governing bodies and if the school governing bodies cannot handle the issue then they should be replaced.
In today’s norm, most parents tend to push this responsibility to teachers which is not right because teachers are there to educate them daily.
Parents who do not look after their children properly will have a troublesome child.
Parents should look after and manage their child well as they are the number one teachers.
A bad precedent is set when we see primary school kids smoking and chewing betel nut and taking alcohol.
Many parents could not care less about what their kids are doing.
Maybe we should jail parents whose underage kids are doing that.
The parents whose children walk to school, should take the responsibility of conducting their own investigation and find out if their children are really in school.
On the weekend in Kokopo, 81 students were charged with cult worshipping, homebrew and drug consumption and drinking in a public place.
Police said when they arrived at Mamapua Beach, the students aged between 16 and 21 were allegedly in the middle of worshipping a young man.
They were drunk and unable to talk properly.
Alcohol abuse is a combative issue that poses many challenges for our society.
The problem of consumption of illegal items such homebrew and also marijuana is increasing at an alarming rate and has become a development issue for the nation.
Our young population are extremely vulnerable to this disastrous problem, and it should be treated as an issue of concern for the government, and all stakeholders in the country.
The production of illegal drugs and alcohol is done at a very high level at just about all the societies in the country and most times it is happening right under the nose of the leaders, parents and citizens of communities.
In some areas, police are doing their best but with not enough manpower and limited resources and mobility, they cannot be everywhere to attend to these social issues.
All fingers point to the Government, blaming it for diverting its focus elsewhere and not on matters where we claim were supposed to be addressed.
Realistically, given the current situation the country is in, the Government can only do what it can do and the rest of it now falls back more specifically on families.
Changes may not happen overnight but that can be achieved if all the effort is put into dealing with the issue.
It is time the magisterial service, police and all stakeholders work together to address this issue.
The police must be strict in upholding the law and take those who violate or breach it to court.
Harsh as it may sound, but the solution to this is to take students caught to court.
Let the law deal with rogue behaviour appropriately.