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Causes Of Unruly Behaviour Among The Secondary School Students
[A CASAE STUDY OFOYO EAST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF OYO, OYO STATE]
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1. Verbal violence ((name-calling, creating disorder, bullying).
2. More serious behaviour, including vandalism, theft blackmail
3. Extortions or using a weapon on the school premises
4. Planned violence, which includes physical violence with weapons in or outside the school.
5. The sexual harassment of girls.
2.4 Analysizing Disciplinary Problems
The ills and vices that go on in the society have effects in school, Students, teachers and even school managements are involved in one form of indiscipline or the other. Some unruly behaviour among secondary school students can be analysed as follows:
1. Truancy: This is irregular attendance in school or classes with many factors within or outside the school building, Peer-group influence, teacher methods of teaching or discipline are some school factors that can lead to truancy. Factors outside the school may include poverty where the child might need to fend for him/herself, engage in labour to raise money, parenting/guarding methods of discipline, security among others.
2. Absenteeism: This may result from the type of leadership obtaining in a school. The school exercise greater control over students and may lead students to frustration, if there is insufficient supply of school materials and facilities such as food, water, toilet facilities which may lead to absenteeism or rebellion against authority. If a student has formed destructive habit, he is also likely to consistently be absent or revolts against authority unaware of the consequences of his actions. Teachers may have poor attitude to class teaching by using inappropriate materials and contents in such a manner that may constitute them into a certain source of absent on the part of students as resulting from dissatisfaction and frustration from schoolwork.
3. Fighting: Children fighting at the secondary school level are very low in self esteem. The chief impetus for fighting during the normal course of classroom and playground life tends to lie in the child’s basic sense of inadequacy and feelings of not being valued or worthy. In other words, the four psychological needs of the child have not been met: the need for love, security, new experience and need for responsibility. Home background may contribute to frequent fighting nature of a child.
4. Stealing: This is the removal of another person’s property without his permission. The social economic environment including status of parents, home Background and a natural tendency to steal is responsible for this among students. This conduct is mostly influenced by Peer-group pressure. The value structure of the society, such as to get rich quick syndrome in Nigeria has led many young people to the false convention that there is no need to purse life course with appropriate handwork and consequent success. Some parents spoil their children by exhibiting highly permissive behaviour. They allow children to have everything on demand and task themselves to overdo what they believe is their responsibility. This attitude encourages children to interpret any form of lack as hardship and frustration to the extent of justifying their removal of other peoples‘ property.
5. Drug Addiction/Abuse: This is one of the most dangerous and most common in school disciplinary problems. It means taking drug without prescription by the appropriate person. Abuse drugs include cigarettes, alcohol, tobacco, heroine and smoking of herbs. There is a general moral decadence in this regard because many parents are also guilty of the same misbehaviour and are unable to instruct correct, advice or guide children along the proper paths concerning the use of drugs.
2.5 Causes of Disciplinary Problems
a. Parental /Home Factor: Most authors regard parents as of the greatest importance in creating a conducive teaching and learning atmosphere. It seems that the lack of parental involvement is the major cause of disciplinary problems in secondary schools. Alidzulwi (2000), points out that many parents are not involved in the education of their children, causing poor results, high dropout rates, and the absence of discipline in schools. Bowman (2004), is of the opinion that parents’ failure to teach their children discipline is identified as the greatest contributing factor to disciplinary problems in schools. Louw and Barnes(2003), affirmed that they have never seen a problem child, only problem parents. When analysing the ability of parents to take care of their children on all socio-economic levels and in all racial groups, Rossouw(2003),regards the decline in discipline in most schools are originating from the communities rather than from schools. Stressing that parents authorities as well as towards educators, and some have a laissez-faire approach towards their children. Some other factors related to the lack of parental involvement in schools that influence discipline are,
1. Single parent homes
2. A lack of parental control at home
3. The negative influence of television
4. Neighbourhood and community problems that influence the home
5. Values differences between the home and the school.
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