Students Change Tune From Burning Schools To Slaughtering School Animals
Students of Chavakali High School allegedly slaughtered three schools bulls on Wednesday morning and shared the among themselves, torched a dormitory and finally left the school compound.
Some of the students raided the kitchen, forced out the cooks and ate everything.
The students have left many Kenyans in shock at the way they are conducting themselves in schools instead of focusing on their studies.
Whatever is happening in our boarding secondary schools should not be taken lightly. The question is, “what can be done to curb the challenge”? Can it be prayers, spiritual clinics, guidance counselling or both?
Another shocking incident happened in Ituri High School in Gatundu South Constituency. Students went on a rampage and the school was closed indefinitely.
Shockingly the students dismantled the school bus, overturned it and went away with glasses and tires.
The government through the ministry of education has scheduled a midterm break in the next to weeks intending to curb unrest in schools. The decision was met thinking that students were tired and needed rest.
In some schools, students went on rampage merely a week after they resumed for the second term. How soon did they get tired? The ministry of education and other stakeholders need to find the root cause of the arson in schools. The problem can only be solved if the root cause is known.
Some of the stakeholders in the Ministry of Education have proposed the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools. Can canning solve anything?
The challenges in our secondary schools current are beyond caning. Is there something the students are trying to communicate but we are too busy to see or listen?
It is high time the government, the ministry of education parents and other stakeholders intervened to establish the core cause of the school fires and student rampages so that a permanent solution can be realised.
Guidance and counselling, spiritual clinics and dialogue should be embraced to address the challenges in our schools once the root cause is established.
There is no need to blame each other instead let us come together to curb this vice if we are to achieve our target goals
