As learners return to school from holiday, necessary interventions must ensure tranquillity and serenity are upheld in the learning environment.
Screening and checking out the learners’ baggage should ensure that only legally allowed items enter the learning institutions.
Some learners attempt to sneak drugs into the learning environment so that they can sell them to fellow students. This has been a booming, silent business in many institutions that operate under the carpet.
Teachers and school security organs have to be proactive in the wake of school parents’ days and general visiting days because these are possible conduits through which drug peddlers take advantage and infiltrate drugs and other unwanted materials that could promote violence or bigotry in the learning environment.
There is some learners’ baggage, which could be having books or pamphlets full of religious radicalism that are likely to incite violence against the administration or create anarchy.
Other items could be sneaked into the learning institutions through the fence and collected later.
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Society needs to realise that a learning institution is an inter-system social system that entails everything that happens in society.
There’s scarcely anything that happens in society that’s entirely unknown to learners in our schools.
Some learners would spend the little pocket money they are given to liaise with cartels who may pretend to be their parents. Some could associate with school workers to do the same.
In some schools, carrying food is completely outlawed, but a few learners would be found carrying food items in the hostels.
Simple mini packets of wine can comfortably fit into an exercise or a textbook.
If the gate screening is not thorough, learners can sometimes sneak in knives, swords, and other dangerous weapons.
Further, another group of learners can enter the school compound in civilian clothes and move unnoticed from one place to another.
Yet others could enter the school compound with electric appliances to prepare tea during cold weather. This is very dangerous since it can start hazardous fires.
By Hillary Muhalya
