Students lack discipline, says ex-teacher

By ELLEN TIAMU
A FORMER teacher at Bugandi Secondary School in Lae, Morobe, says student behaviour at the school this year is the worst he has seen.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the teacher, a long-time resident of Lae, said he was angry that student behaviour and conduct had been allowed to deteriorate so low, resulting in the death of a student from the school last Friday.
Grade 11 student Daniel Passingan was stabbed with a sharp object at Eriku while trying to catch a bus home.
He died later at the Angau Memorial Hospital. The report was reportedly the result of a fight.
Passingan is of New Ireland and East New Britain parentage.
Bugandi Secondary School principal Albert Sabok could not say whether the fight involved students from Bugandi or from other schools, or if it started in the school yard
earlier that day.
Lae metropolitan police commander Supt Nema Mondiai said he did not have any information as police were still investigating.
He could not confirm whether suspects were arrested.
Morobe education adviser, Murika Bihoro, who is in Madang for an inspectors ratings conference, said he
had yet to get information from the education division in Lae on the incident.