The ongoing orgy of violence in our schools should not only be looked into at surface level but also with an inner eye. The number of students arrested for plotting to burn schools around the country increased from 100 to 124 after two dozen were arrested in Nairobi, Coast and Western regions. This is an indication that the students lack morals as they are continuing to cause havoc to our institutions. What is even more annoying is that the latest incidents in Kisii revealed that teachers' commitments in stopping the ongoing school fires should be questioned.
The police officers carrying out investigations also said some security guards were also involved in the arson schemes and protected the culprits. This led me into thinking about what might have gone wrong with the entire system of education that has lead students to burn up their school dormitories. Is this how we have taught our children to deal with grievances? They're obviously trying to pass a message to the school administration and the parents. The method they are using to pass the message is an evidence of what the society has taught them.
We have seen cases of politicians rioting in the streets during demonstrations that have gone sour. An example was the Monday IEBC demonstrations that were held by CORD as they called for the disbandment of IEBC. Our students therefore have a mindset that the best way to pass across their grievances is by violence and not dialogue. The society is blaming the children and pointing fingers to them as they lock them up in cages. What these students need is a good view of a mature society with able leaders otherwise we will have more schools burning up in the future.
It is only a matter of time before we hear students have been hurt during these orgies of violence. The society is the reason we are having learned monsters. We wonder how our bright students end up burning dormitories yet we are the problem. An example is on how during wars we have learned engineers who are building gas chambers to end people's lives, we have infants who are killed by trained nurses, women and babies shot by high school and college graduates.
We want to sit down and blame this on education yet it is the society which is turning these learned people into monsters. We have had a lawyer in Kenya being killed in cold blood by an obviously educated individual. The individual most probably saw that the society uses violence to get rid of threats and they seized that opportunity. This is what our students are doing. They are simply being turned into learned monsters by the society. We have taught our children that violence is normal and they are taking this lesson into action.
Our schools are also teaching a curriculum in a moral vacuum. Not much is being taught about morality. Students are being told that success is all that matters. They use whichever means to obtain it even by cheating during exams. Moral and ethics must be firmly implanted at the same time as skills or tools to either create great works or enable great harm. The society is a rot and for us to get rid of its smell so that it doesn't affect our children we need to instill an education with a moral component. Let us unite and stop creating monsters that are educated.
