Indiscipline in schools worrying, let’s pull out all stops to tame it

Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha with Joytown Primary School pupils when he visited the school in Thika, Kiambu county. [ Kamau Maichuhie, Standard]

Indiscipline is fast becoming a dangerous norm in schools exacerbated by social media trends and peer influence. Events of the past weeks, including a viral video clip of a 12-year-old pupil of a Nairobi school spewing vulgar words, are a disturbing cue of how delinquency in schools can be erratic.

Regrettably, it’s fast becoming fashionable for children to defy teachers and parents and get away with it. In fact, it has reached a point where teens have perfected the art of closing their ears to parental advice, ending up engaging in acts that only serve to destroy their lives.