EFFECT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN EGHOSA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY, EKIADOLOR, EDO STATE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Student’s disciplinary problem has become part of the average students in this country for quite a decade source. It has become a canker worm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the educational system and the authorities can no longer fold its hands watching this problem grow.
Reports of student’s disciplinary problem have become weekly if not daily affairs on the pages of the Nigerian Dailies source. It is not only the press media, the electronic media is not left out in the crusade against students disciplinary problems. Acts of utter vandalism destruction of school property drug addiction truancy and delinquent behaviour and the like have been recorded out our secondary level.
The student’s disciplinary problems at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy have reached such a high degree that it has become a perennial problem, which constitutes discussion. A lot has been said of student’s disciplinary problem at the secondary school level at various schools and colleges at seminars conference and symposia.
In spite of the condemnation of problem there still exist in a regrettable and alarming proportion of rioting drug abuse truancy and other maladaptive behaviour among school level in Eghosa Christian academy.
This decaying morality has been attributed to teachers, students, parent, and educational authorities, government e. t. c.
Although it is very difficult to blame a particular arm of the society, the obvious facts remain that the standard of behaviour among secondary school student in Eghosa Christian academy has reached a stage whereby the problem has now become a societal one.
This researcher is therefore intended to examine the academic the effect of student’s disciplinary problem on academic performance at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state with the intention of finding possible ways of eliminating them.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
No nation, society, institution of learning be it primary, post primary or higher institution, a family or even an individual can survive and succeed without strict adherence to the basic principles of disciplinary measures there must be evidence of courtesy, fair play justice, obedience, politeness, respect for elders and constituted authorities and finally, respect for for law and order for human dignity. What we see now is the opposite of all the above.
PURPOSE OF STUDY
Disciplinary problem among secondary school students is now a subject of concern to almost every member of the Nigerian society.
It is therefore considered necessary to examine the effect of this problem on academic performance at this level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state. This study is considered significant because disciplinary problem in secondary school level could under mind the present effort by the government in bringing sanity in schools.
If we must have a healthy society in future children who are regarded as the leaders of such a society must be guarded in their transition from adolescent to adulthood to ensure a better society in future.
The purpose of this study therefore is:
To examine the effect of disciplinary problem on academic performance at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state.
To examine what could be responsible for this problem.
To make suggestion and recommendation from findings.
RESEARCH QUESTION
Are parents responsible for student’s disciplinary problem among secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy?
ii. Does the corrupt attitude of the society affect student’s displinary problem?
iii. What is the effect of student’s disciplinary problem on academic performance?
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The importance of this study is to examine the effect of student’s disciplinary problem on the academic performance at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state and this is sought out to see the extent to which disciplinary problem has affected academic performance and standard of education in secondary of education in secondary school. It is hoped that the outcome of this study will provide the approach to the eradication of disciplinary problem as a lasting solution to this problem is not only in Eghosa Christian academy but also elsewhere.
DELIMITATION
The study is restricted to the secondary school level. The sample will also include male and female of the secondary school and it is restricted to Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo State.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
The following definition is important for the successful completion of this project.
Truancy: Act or habit of staying away from school without permission.
Discipline: is the adherence to rules and regulations governing the school which is the ruined and character to produce self-control, habit of obedience etc.
Indiscipline: The absence of discipline in the form of disobedience, absenteeism, non-challant attitude, lateness to school, negligence of duty etc.
School Administration: Is a formularized system which plans and coordinate organs of school (stating reporting and evaluating of all matters of the entire school affairs).
Violence: Behaviour that is intended to hurt or kills somebody.
Juvenile: A young person who is not yet an adult.
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