Ghana’s future looks bleak as youth of ‘Today’ have insatiably appetite for indiscipline: Educationist admonishes indiscipline among The Youth
An Educationist and a former Assistant Headmaster of Dzodze-Penyi Senior High School in Ketu North Municipality, Godwin K. Kaledzi has proclaimed that his heart bleeds when he hears people say that the youth are the future leaders.
According to him, “my heart bleeds because the youth of today are insatiably intoxicated with indiscipline.
They have insatiably taste or appetite for indiscipline, so one can imagine the type of future leader Ghana has”, emphasizing that, Ghana’s youth of today have a problem which he described as a generational problem.
Mr. Kaledzi who was addressing hundreds of Basic Students, Teachers, Chiefs and Opinion Leaders at the 10th Award Ceremony of John Gatsi Educational Foundation, held at Bagome Basic School-Dzodze noted that “deviant behaviors, such as sexual promiscuity, truancy, drug abuse and top it all laziness have become the main agenda of life for today’s youth”.
He said all these acts are incompatible with discipline and for that matter success or prosperity.
Speaking on the theme: “Discipline; Bedrock for academic excellence”, Godwin Galedzi stressed the point that success of prosperity hides itself at the tail end of a tortuous, a narrow or rough path, therefore it is only those who persevere that can get to the tail end of that path and for that matter achieve success or prosperity.
Traveling along that path call for self-discipline, he maintained.
“Self-discipline is the ability to control and direct oneself along a desire path in order to arrive at a desire destination or to attend a desire goal or objective.
Self-discipline calls for self-restraint in your thought, speech and deeds, self-discipline calls for self-denial of today’s comfort and enjoyment of a better future.
Self-disciple calls for respect for the elderly, respect for rules and regulations and respect for authority”.
In a speech delivered on behalf of The Municipal Director of Education, Mercy Ashagbor was grateful to Professor John Gatsi for his commitments and continuous support for quality education delivery in the Ketu North.
She said for the past 10 years, the Foundation is making an intensive outreach to all stakeholders in education to make conscious and committed effort to the full realization of best education ever in the Ketu North Municipality.
Madam Ashiagbor made passionate appeal to parents to support their wards in school with all the necessary materials needed for effective teaching and learning.
The Director revealed that, “based on the result ofJohn Gatsi Foundation Examination. it is clear that the public schools are not performing to expectation.
Also with heavy heart our performance in B.E.C.E last year, 2018 has dropped drastically from 39.4 to 33.71 for unknown reasons.
And as a result, the Municipal Education Directorate has organized and executed School Performance and Appraisal Meeting (SPAM) in all low performing schools as one of the measures to curtail (prevent) the abysmal performance in the Municipality”.
This approach (SPAM) is to identify and solve the problems from the perspective of pupils, teachers and parents, she stated.
