The recent countrywide school unrests has brought more questions than answers to the public over what is really happening in the schools that was not happening before.
Educationists and the public are always puzzled as to why a student would wake up one day, mobilize his fellow students, introduces the doctrine of a strike to his peers and have them unanimously agree to follow him in his endeavors to put down a school.
As we ponder over the possibility of all this, we need to realize that the causes of a strike and burning dormitories in a school are not the usual issues that students always put a cross. When we put on the right lenses, we are able to identify factors like these below;
School administrators and staff are always working because they have something to gain at the end of the day not necessarily because their services are needed for national development.
They go ahead to create the impression that they own these schools as their personal projects.
Why are these students not allowed to corporately own their schools? Students ought to be made to feel that they have a stake in these institutions and they own them.
Therefore it is their singular duty to love and protect their school from any kind of harm. The youngsters should be introduced to informal and formal patriotism classes at an early stage, and this can help reduce on the number of strikes.
Patriotism can be achieved in its reality only if the administration lives up to those standards.
Another contributing factor to the innumerable strikes in schools is the role model effect.
It is unfortunate that politicians, civil society groups, religious leaders and other opinion leaders riot and go unpunished.
It is important to realize that strikes are also a result of poor communication between the students and the administration or between the prefects and the administration.
Other major causes of student strikes include: poor parenting, lack of essential facilities in schools, poorly cooked food, political interference, among others.
School managements should address these weaknesses to create a preventive mechanism against strikes before issues run out of their hands.