Tighten discipline, stop school fights

IT seems school fights have reared its ugly head again into schools and among students.
The issue may not have received much attention from the authorities or media, but it is a concern for parents whose children have become victims.
Spotting the purple long pants, students from a particular secondary school in Moresby’s North West electorate put on a display of cat and mouse at the Waigani Drive – Koura Way intersection yesterday afternoon.
It has become a routine for students to chase others of their number from schools on to roads and cause havoc and hindrance to the public and motorists.
This should not be accepted as a norm.
Seems the introduction of every school year, term holidays or year end from recent observations, also signals the onslaught of school fights. This looming fate may become a norm if there is no proper enforcement of behaviour policy in schools.
If those tasked with enforcing penalties for the ones involved were on top of their responsibility, there will rarely be experiences as such because the students will fear retribution that maybe tragic or costly.
It is the negative effects of a corrupt and lawless State that needs resuscitation.
One cause of school fights has been attributed to the cult system that has now gone down to primary school students, affecting many lives and bringing all sorts of disturbances and problems to the peaceful communities.
Good-natured and long term preventive measures are needed to fully eliminate the on-going battles between schools or within school.
Tougher penalties should be applied to schools.
Corrective measures start at home, but what we are experiencing doesn’t speak much about it.
Existing laws need to be re-visited.
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 child properly will most likely end up raising 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 nuts and consuming alcohol.
Parents of children who walk to school should be monitoring their children if they are really in school.
You see them leave the house, but are you sure they made it to school?
As parents, it is our duty to bring up our children. We should be devoted to care for them.
We should talk with them every day before they go to school and when they come back from school.
If parents have that attitude and time for their children, many students would avoid mischief and bad behaviour.
For some of these children, one can easily see the no-care attitude in their movement.
In today’s society, applying tough penalties on students in some schools has seen more complications come out of it.
Students and parents are retaliating against teachers.
Any student found to be guilty of involving in any school fights or cult practices should be sent directly without bail to jail.
If they want to fight, then they should be treated as criminals.