Dr. Peter Anti Partey, Executive Director of the Institute for Education Studies (IFEST), has raised serious concerns about rising student violence following a viral video involving students of Swedru School of Business (SWESBUS) during a recent zonal athletics competition in the Central Region.
The disturbing footage, which has been widely circulated on social media, captured clashes among students from several senior high schools, including Aggrey Memorial SHS, Adisadel College, SWESBUS, Obrachire SHTS, and Kwanyako SHTS.
Speaking on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, Dr. Partey described the incident as symptomatic of deeper societal and systemic problems.
“It tells us that we are nurturing students who don’t have empathy, who are very wicked in mind, who pose a serious threat to society, if not checked.
And it tells us that we are failing as a society, because I cannot understand why you would take a… that was a block, right? And try to throw it on your fellow student who is unarmed, he’s not done anything wrong, his only crime is that he belongs to the other school that you are having a competition with.”
Dr. Partey stressed that such acts of aggression go beyond school rivalry and point to deficiencies in supervision, moral training, and adolescent character development within Ghana’s educational framework.
According to him, the violence witnessed during what should have been a healthy inter-school sporting event underscores the urgent need for stakeholders to re-examine the values being instilled in students.
He warned that if these behavioural patterns are not addressed decisively, they could pose a broader threat to society in the long term.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
