When young boys decide not to
spare the life of a teacher, community elders and opinion leaders must find out
why. The answer is not far-fetched. There is moral degeneration especially
among the youth.
Society as a whole must be held
responsible for the downward slide in discipline.
The death of the 57-year-old
teacher allegedly beaten to death by wayward boys expectedly touched the hearts
of almost all who heard the story that indicated that it was a group of young
boys who hatched the plan and executed it. However, a court of law is yet to
give a verdict on the issue.
The rate at which young boys
are becoming wayward and getting enmeshed in immoral activities attests to our
faltering values.
An alien behaviour has descended
upon us and the earlier we joined hands in countering it the better for the
future of our society. This could not
have happened anywhere in the Gold Coast and many years after independence.
While we are unable to really
control some of these occurrences in our society, we can somewhat minimise it
so that the extreme cases, as in the story under review, will not occur.
We cannot discount the role of
social media in such moral degeneration but suffice it to state that the
quality of upbringing we administer to our growing kids at home can shield them
against such regrettable conducts.
The lives of these kids
whatever their ages would certainly never be the same. They have put themselves,
their parents and the country in an unenviable predicament. When they
eventually fail to convince the judiciary about their innocence and are thus
convicted, the burden they will put on the state cannot be ignored as they go
through the process of corrections in special facilities at the hands of correctional
officers at a financial cost to the taxpayer.
With traits of their
degeneration having been showing even now, these boys could have gotten wayward
overnight. Unfortunately, parents, teachers and others noticed but did little
to remedy the situation.
Teachers and parents in
particular have an onerous role to play in bringing up children because after
all the kids spend more time with them. It is not enough to teach kids how to
read and write. The moral aspects of child upbringing is essential especially
in this day and age when gaming centres, the acquisition of smart phones and illegal
way of making money through Internet fraud are not beyond kids as young as
fourteen and fifteen.
Parents, local authorities, law
enforcement agencies, churches and mosques should note that the challenge of
child waywardness is staring us in the face.
The action of these boys is a
wakeup call to all stakeholders in our communities to show concern about the
quality of upbringing being given to our children, especially in their
formative years.
Parents and teachers should
constantly monitor the movements of their children and pupils so that when the
red lights are showing, they can intervene at an early stage. This way they can establish whether the Internet
cafes have not become their second homes, among other danger signs.
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