Prominent stand-up comedian Bovi Ugboma thinks it’s absurd that seniors in secondary schools could discipline their juniors in the classroom. He believes that it is an act that should have stayed in the past.
The idea that senior secondary school pupils may discipline their junior peers in the classroom, according to Bovi Ugboma, is absurd.
When Bovi was in secondary school, he said, he didn’t understand why schools promoted the seniority complex. The comedian recently addressed the excellence in leadership conference, emphasizing how the ordinary secondary school student in Nigeria lacks discipline, which is one of the reasons the educational system is defective.
Going on, Bovi emphasized that it is improper for teachers to allow pupils the power to correct or penalize other students in their place, noting that this encourages bullying among secondary school students.
Speaking to the assembly, he stated:
“Empowering students to discipline students is insane, we are crazy in this country and you have no idea, there is nothing normal about it. I can’t imagine that my own child that I gave birth to, would go to school and then I would be told that another student punished him either by flogging him or asking him to kneel down. The oldest child is an average of 16 years, what do they know about discipline, there’s nothing right about it.”
Bovi added that while he was still in secondary school he was abused by his seniors and he is still surprised that such an act is still going on in this day and time.
He said:
“The senior students are meant to guide the junior ones, not that teachers would sit back and tell the senior students that they can punish their juniors. In my secondary school years I was abused and dumbfounded at how someone one year ahead of me could tell me to kneel down,”
The father of three claimed that accepting this idea breeds power-hungry college students who join cults and eventually become members of society who misuse their position of authority. He believes that there should be a better approach to things and how secondary schools discipline their pupils.
