Parents must not leave the responsibility of teaching their children good manners to teachers, according to the chairman of Bunge la Wannachi in Uriri Market Centre, Mr. George Orimba.
He says that it is annoying to hear parents complain about long holidays set aside by the government for students to rest at home with their parents.
“It is not the work of teachers to instill all discipline required in children but it is the responsibility of parents to do that by staying closer and longer with their off-springs at home and teaching them what is wright in their day to today hebavious,” explained the official.
Most schools closed their doors this week for two months and the rush of students back home has already elicited mixed reactions and fears among parents about looming gross misbehaviors by the teenagers in villages and towns during the long December and January holiday.
While other parents claim that the long holiday would present a good time to the youth to indulge in immoral sexual escapades leading to illicit pregnancies and massive school dropouts, others have complained about the present hard economic situation that cannot allow them to feed their children well at home.
Those parents fuming against the long school break and criticising the state for coming up with a school calendar that removes their children from the watch of teachers for long are indirectly running away from their duties of raising up their children according to their own moral beliefs and instead surrendering their work to teachers, says Mr. Orimba.
Consequently, he dismisses the stands of such parents on their children’s long rest at home as reckless, careless and uncalled for, affirming that it is the parents moral teachings that should be strictly picked by his or her children.
He says those who fully gave out their children’s upbringing to teachers have become a letdown in the society by helping in the breading of criminals, rise in school dropouts and unwanted pregnancies.
“This dragon of bad parenting has eaten our present and threatens our future seriously. If we fail to act now in giving children the right advices as parents -decisively and without remorse – there will be no celebratory life in future,” he added.
