Abolish Primary Boarding Schools

In the wake of runaway indiscipline cases in our secondary schools, various stakeholders are pondering and scratching their heads on the best way to contain the happenings especially the burning down of schools in most parts of the country.

I think the primary boarding schools are partly to blame for these occurrences. It beats logic when a parent takes his kid of 7 years and ‘dumps’ him in a boarding school. These kids lack care and guidance from their guardians/parents. They grow ‘hiding’ their characters/behaviors from their parents and when school closes, the badly behaved students turn to ‘saints’ while at home. There are situations where parents have differed with the school administration when called to schools to discuss their children’s misconducts. They even pull out their children from such schools and transfer them to others. This comes about since they highly trust their kids and would never imagine the kids would do such acts.