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Poised
to ensure excellence with their wards, The Parents/Teachers Association (PTA)
of the Air Force Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos has reiterated its commitment
to the issues of discipline, pure character molding and better academic
excellence in the school.
The
parents stated this in a communiqué issued by the parents/teachers association
and signed by the Chairman AFSS PTA, Mr. Ayoola Badejo after its emergency
meeting to address emerging patterns of gross indiscipline amongst senior
students of the school and complaints of excessive canning of students as
punishment for misconduct by students.
According
to the statement, AFSS, Ikeja remains a secondary school of excellence amongst
its peers and stressed that issue of discipline still remains key element of
building up the children and preparing them for their future.
The
PTA noted that the schools authority must refrain from meting out excessive
punishment to students, especially excessive canning to correct misdemeanour
and infractions of the rules and the regulations of the school by students.
The
PTA condemned some emerging issues among the students which borders on few
students showing traits of been members of an emerging cult group called “the
Marlians”, expressing displeasure that the marlians have characteristics that
include - Must be a drop out of school;. No use of belts; No wearing of pants
and bras on specific days of the week; No respect to adults or age; amongst
others.
They
therefore agreed that parents need to pay more attention to their children as
the children spend more time with their parents than in school and mandated
the school management to do everything possible to ensure students
do not become members of the marlians group as stated, condemning in no certain
terms, the parents that sponsored the publication of distorted facts on social
media and newspapers of the incident that happened in the school, as it was
established that no sick student was canned during the exercise.
Also,
parents who sponsored the social media posts, were enjoined to go back to undo
what they have already done, that is to restore the image of the school, with
the house commending the Commandant for sponsoring the Commandant’s
examinations in English and mathematics for the examination classes at his own
expense and agreed that, the Commandant is the father of all the students in
the school.
Furthermore,
the Commandant apologized to the parents and gave assurances that, such will
not happen again as the school’s counselling unit would be more involved
in helping the children turn a new leaf, noting that, the students at a meeting
they initiated with the Commandant, apologized to the Commandant for their
misbehaviours and thus reconciled with the Commandant.
The
meeting also agreed that Students misbehaviours should be brought to the
attention of parents by the school before things get out of hand and that,
parents should deploy all internal channels to resolve any issue that may arise
in the future rather than run to the press which is destructive.
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