Child Right International (CRI) has urged parents, guardians, and relatives to abide by the discipline standards set by school authorities both in their actions and inactions during visiting hours.
Child Right International has suggested that school authorities should take steps to safeguard policies that regulate the actions of outside parties during their visits in the school and these parties include parents, relatives, and friends amongst others and must abide by the discipline standards set by school authorities both in their actions and inactions.
In his statement, he noted that Child Rights International believe that as a country, our first priority must be to ensure that the best interest of children are manifested in every decision we take concerning them. We must refrain from resorting to punitive measures ONLY as a way of reformation and look to true underlying reasons for student misconduct that sometimes stem from a host of reasons.
The Executive Director of Child Right International, Mr Bright Appiah stated through their own investigation they have gathered, students especially those in the same notable Junior and Senior High schools in the country are engaged in destructive conducts including drugs, stealing and sexually immoral acts and these students are found in both the public and private schools.
He stated that the organisation has in possession a number of recorded videos of students using social media to propagate indiscipline. Some of which have gone viral on various social media platforms, particularly, Instagram and Facebook and these issues, left unattended to and unresolved could pose serious challenges to Ghana’s future since the next generation of leaders (who are students now) would have grown to become wayward and undisciplined.
The Executive Director of Child Rights International, Mr Bright Kweku Appiah speaking to the media focusing on the surge of the use of social media by students to exhibit certain ill behaviour and other indiscipline activities which are happening in our schools.
In his address, he cited one typical example in the recent viral video involving seven female students from the Ejisuman Senior High school in the Ashanti Region who posted a video on social media that contained language with sexual innuendos that the CRI condemns with no certain term. The conduct exhibited by the students and stated categorically that it does not subscribe to any acts that would not promote discipline and orderliness in Ghana’s educational system.
Mr Bright Appiah said the case involving the students from Ejisuman School, information reaching CRI suggests that the girls had access to a mobile phone during visiting hours to take the infamous video. In as much as the girls misbehaved, they cannot ignore the role the owner of the phone played in enabling and aiding their behaviour and CRI
“Without discovering these hidden causes, punishment will always be meted out without yielding the desired reformation we seek and if these measures raised above, are taken into account and instituted, the recent surge in student misconduct will be dramatically reduced and curtailed.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Sheila Satori Mensa
