An investigation of students' involvement in Selected Secondary Schools discipline Enhancement in Rongo Division Rongo District-Kenya
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Date
2009-04
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Kampala International University, College of Education, Open and Distance Learning.
Abstract
Each year about 50 schools go on strike during the month of July, this year (2008) over
300 schools were on revolt dnring the second tenn. It is a tension filled month because of
the mocks, schools running out of money and meals way below standard. Students have
endured six months of what they cons,der ill treatment, incompetence and absenteeism of
teachers, adrn.inistrative conuption, poor maintenance of buildings and no one to listen to
their normally reasonable complaints and suggestions. It is also the cold season in the
highlands and students have little to kceep themselves warm, physically and morally. The
only way to attract attention they reasnn is by radical means: striking though rarely w1fo
arson until recently.
Post-election violence could be a caw,e. Some student's moral responsibility was totat'.y
killed during the 'troubles'. They burnt houses; saw people running away, children falling
from exhaustion, from hunger and thirst for water. They became immune to any feelings of
humanity. They regarded then- deeds «s successful when they saw people being killed or
maimed and property destro ye:!. The perpetrators of such deeds (who included student.:)
were not reprimanded but were regarded as heroes, some students got an idea that in order
to successful, one needed to disrupt anri destroy systems.
The study adopted a Descriptive research design. This enhanced the researcher to obtaio a
better understanding of the stlidents' r::irticipation and reinforcement of school rules in
selected secondary schools ir. Rongo division,Rongo district. The method chosen allowed a
collection of comprehensive anJ intensive data and provided an in-depth understanding c.Y
the topic under study.
Description
A research report submitted to the Institute of
Open and Distance Learning in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Award of the
Bachelors of Education (Arts) of Kampala
International University.
Keywords
Schools Discipline, Secondary Schools, Students, Rongo District-Kenya