This is why campus students are in a big mess

Attaining a university degree is considered to be the epitome of a successful life. The modern day university student, however, seems to be changing the script for which these institutions are best known for.  

Events of the past few years have depicted these institutions as institutions of higher loving and advanced partying. Students have lost lives in mysterious love triangles, a good number of them crushing to death after a drinking spree. Cases of abortion do not even make headlines anymore when they happen in campuses.

To say that I sympathize with the young generation in our universities is just an understatement. I should go ahead and start a "Save our university students" campaign to magnify my concerns. The general assumption with most parents is that once their son or daughter joins university they are fully responsible adults. This notion leads our parents into neglecting their parenting roles leaving it to the rogue campus culture and the unavailable lecturers.

This further leads our generation into even deeper calamity. Responsibility is not easily acquired. It is not a stage in life. Responsibility is taught. It is learnt. It sometimes requires maximum supervision to be acquired. It is not something you buy from the supermarket or pick up by the virtue of belonging to a certain class. Maybe these events are the right cue for parents and guardians to stop neglecting their parenting roles and act. This is because our flawed education system alone cannot be trusted to save this ship from sinking.

Maybe if the proposed overhaul of the 8-4-4 system is implemented things might get better because things are not better at the secondary education level either. Not with the recent torching of schools and whatnot. Should the system adopt a strategy that does not require students to cram their notes for regurgitation during CATs and examinations maybe then we will see a difference in those who go through campus. A strategy that ensures morals is instilled in this generation to save it from perishing.

I belong to a school of thought that believes bringing up a child is partly a parental responsibility and largely a responsibility of the society. Until these parties chip in to save our students, they are going to be swimming in their mess for a long time.