WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT OUR CURRENT SCHOOL SITUATION?

WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
I think we should stop the debate on who,where or how we are wrong on arson cases in our secondary institutions and rather take a pose to look deep into the real issue. I suppose we will al agree to the fact that we have allowed the society to rot right from the childhood upbringing. Well I am a strong holder of the belief that discipline makes up a major part of whom we were,are and will be. The results we experience in our daily lives depend greatly on how we approach our situations. How we react to our situations depend greatly on how well(in some major key areas in our humanity;Emotionally,Psychologically,Physically and Spiritually) we are equiped to deal with the situations. How well we are equiped in all these pieces that make up our human nature and form is also a question of how well we were and are being modeled to be part of the society-majorly by how we are brought up. "Kilaa kiumaa nthí na miwua ya cho" This is a kamba proverb loosesly translated to "A thorny bush grows with its thorns from the ground" What it really means is that we grow with our behavious from our childhood. Literaly,it should state that we begun being whom we are from our very tender age. Should I suppose that the students involved in the school chaos we made to be such even in their childhood? No!! But just as a farmer proons their unyielding or unwanted parts of their crops,weeds off their farms and sprays away the insects, manures and waters their farms is how parents are to be held responsible for their childrens' behavious.
It does not however pinch the parent alone,the society too must face the truth. In our times and earlier,the society was tasked with disciplining the child. One would not do wrong in the precense of an elder and assume to go unrewarded. No such day ever was. The immediate elder acted as your parent. The would punish you for whatever deed they see unpleasnt. The society,then,modeled behaviour in the youths. You were made to respect yourself first,then the rest. You were made to appreciate every moment of correction;willingly or not. You would be so carefull not to utter any "new" word you learnt, anyhowly,or even worse argue with an elder even when you are right. You were even made to fear the consequences of a "no" head shake. Everyone was made to appreciate the little they had,even if they hated it. Those days,you were the custodian of your actions. The cane was the advocate for a good and moral society. It was the pain that made one learn to do all the society asked. The pain of the cane kept all young men to their mud-thatched rooms-not to go out loitering everywhere. It was the cane that kept one's hand and eyes off the pot of beer. It was the cane and pintches that took one to school. It was the beating that taught one to be neat. It was the pain that made on learn to utilize their freedom of expression. It was the pain that would hold one against demanding and crying for what was not important or urgent at that moment. The fear of the cane made one do their homework. The fear of the cane made one listen to their elders,and learn from their croockedness. It made one realise and feel the precense of the authority. That was when peace reigned in schools. That was when the teacher was seen as an important role in the consistency of the morality in the society. They taught. They caned. They made good,moral,learned citizens out of the young naive children sent to them by the society. They used the cane as a reference to those who thought of going astray. But then that has for the last decade seemed to have been "then". Times have changed a big deal. The society has taken a new wrong route to morality. The cane has been an enemy to growth and the introduction of technology has exited the reign of good conduct. The private has become public and the public has been shown the dark. The bad has been rebranded to look attractive and the good has been relabled. The society(what was refered to as "us") has broken its bond with culture and the "me" has ruled. The interests of the society have been overrulled by the wants of indivindualism. The family has changed to become gangs. The school has no longer any value to growth,it has been tinted as a place to pass time,to regroup to gangs and a place of moral decay. The schools we took pride in have become places of shame. The cane,has been replaced with gifts that lure one deeper into immorality. Our parents have changed to lesser beings than us, to us. The change has been so fast and radical,so determined that to change it has begun seeming as a dream. But all hope is not lost. That has happened. We should accept. We should now adjust and restructure our society for a turn around. I believe,just like the christians,that we can still bring up the next cohort in a moral way. We can shade our pride and exhault our common interest-bringing morallity back. If we wish for that past,we can use today to create it in the future. What is already done is done. We can't undo it. But we can modify it.
I believe in trials. And you too as a reader should. I believe if the child is brought up in morality from their earliest stage,then we can change the society. Lets begin the change from the start line. Let us give back the teacher his place in restoring morality. Lets give the primary and secondary institution instructor the mandate to give us a moral citizen. That will however be his part. I am sure he will be glad to play his part. Let parents authorise,and too use the cane to rebuild our good but decaying society. Lets begin the reconstruction in our primary schools. If we all devort ourselves,in a decade we will not hear of these cases of arson.
Lets ADJUST for the change. Let the cane be re-intdoduced. I know it will make someone,just as it did to us.
Thank you reader. That was my honest view. What is yours?!
Nelson Kilonzo.