A section of Kisumu County activists have challenged school going students to maintain high standards of discipline by acting responsibly in their behaviour during August holiday.
Speaking on Monday at Kondele Primary at a school function, Kisumu County voice spokesperson Audi Ogada who led the activists cited that good performance was enhanced by good manners and proper discipline, challenging students to maintain high standards of discipline.
He asked students not to avoiding revising their nots and helping parents at home especially holidays in stead of engaging in activities which do not help them in any way.
Ogada noted that it is important to choose good friends and not bad peer ones who would influence one another into vices that destroy their reputation and dignity as students and young citizen.
He emphasised to parents to instil high sense of discipline in their children by monitoring and keen evaluation both in their school work and their conducts at home to help teachers not have a lapse on proper and maintained discipline standards.
“We want our children to be better citizens of tomorrow; this can only be enhanced by proper behaviour instilled in them," said Ogada.
Spokesperson Ogada added that the only weapon to keep academic standards high is by coming up with proper peer groups to learn collectively without indulging in vices that would destroy reputations and concentration in academics.
His colleague Tonny Almeda also re-emphasised on the need to have proper groupings amongst youths and to maintain high standards of discipline.
Almeda challenged government and the Kisumu County leadership to make sure home pubs were strictly monitored as most of them mislead youths by selling to them cheap and readily available and affordable drinks.
According to him, holiday tuition needed to be encouraged to minimise huge time wastage as lots of the students never budgeted with the holiday time properly, yet time waited for no man.