The rising phenomenon of indiscipline in the school system across the country has come under public scrutiny.
The latest intervention in the aberration is the Frimpong-Manso Institute (FMI), which has called for the “immediate setting up of a national committee or committee of stakeholders to diagnose the breakdown of discipline in our schools and the worsening moral decay in the nation.”
In a statement, the FMI proposed that the findings of the committee may be subject to a national debate and rigorous scrutiny before the right policy presentations are considered and implemented with all seriousness.
Continuing, the statement pointed out that “meanwhile, the ball is right in the court of all parents, churches and other religious groups to go the extra mile to shape the lives of their children and their members to reflect the highest moral standards and the fear of God.”
The statement headed ‘Fix School Indiscipline And Societal Rot Now – The Frimpong-Manso Institute Demands,’ recalls what it describes as “the earth shattering and soul-wrenching images of student atrocities at their inter-school athletics which reverberate across the country and the world at large.”
The FMI recalled also the “unthinkable news of male students sexually abusing a female colleague in broad daylight at the Kumasi Sports Stadium.”
These and others, the FMI noted, “are symptomatic of the degree of the rottenness in our schools in particular and society in general.”
The reaction by the Central Regional authorities following the acts of indiscipline in suspending the annual sporting events “regrettably only scratches the surface of the deep-rooted and hydra-headed problems of waywardness in our schools and lawlessness in our nation.”
It is time, the FMI observed, “to reflect on these problems with brutal frankness and cure them with the most appropriate policy surgery.”
The FMI is led by Rev. Prof. Paul Frimpong-Manso as President, Rev. Dr. David Ampah-Bennin (rtd), FMI Thematic Chair, Media, Security & Cyber Security, and Dr. Affail Monney, FMI Fellow – Thematic Area, Media, Security and Cyber Security.