Almost-Extinct Discipline among Students

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. It is one of the fundamentals of success. Without discipline, dreams would never be achieved. However, many seem to lack this virtue, especially students.

A simple manifestation of proper discipline is standing straight on your line, actively participating in the flag raising, staying quiet and listening attentively when the principal is making some announcements during the Monday Convocation. It’s quite easy, right? But it seems like this is too hard for the students.

During Mondays, you can see students who are not properly staying and standing on their lines. Many are sitting on the bleachers. And when the leaders start to sing, they start to talk to each other too. Moreover, there are also others who would not even participate in the program. Instead, they choose stay on the stores outside the school.

It’s not only that. Whenever there are programs, these unruly students give the Supreme Student Government Officers and members of the Special Task Force a hard time pacifying them. Some of them just won’t stop using their cellular phones and other gadgets. Others do not stop from pestering the officers to let them get out of the quadrangle.

These scenarios are the proof of how abysmal the students’ discipline is. If this is how lousy their discipline is during programs, then what would they look like inside their classrooms? We have to make a way to instill even just a little discipline in them. Question is, how?

Our school should train us, the students, to be obedient of the school’s rules and regulations. Every rule-breaking should have a corresponding penalty. We must be taught of how important discipline is not only in maintaining peace and order in the school but also in achieving our dreams and goals in life.

But most importantly, it is the parents of the student who is most responsible in disciplining their child. They should be the ones who will plant the value of discipline to their son/daughter. After all, our parents are our very first mentors and values such as discipline is not foremost learned at school rather at home.