CHALLENGES IN MAINTAINING DISCIPLINE IN KOFORIDUA SENIOR HIGH TECHNICAL SCHOOL

Abstract

It is a lll1iversally acknowledged fact that education is a vital enterprise

geared towards the acquisition of skills, values and knowledge. It is the key to

the development of any nation, because it develops the human resource needeg

for socio-economictransformation. Thus, every progressive and civilized

society thrives on values such as diligence, tolerance, honesty? respect and

consideration for others, courtesy, decorum, decency and love among others.

These are some of the views which society cherishes and have been the

fOlll1dation for nationhood and civilization for ages. Education is the concern

of the people for the right upbringing of their children. It is generally and

universally accepted that schools are purposeful institutions set up by the

society with the explicit goal of providing instruction for systematic education

for learners.

Cermin (1978, p.3) defined education as "the deliberate systematic and

sustained effort to transmit and evoke or acquire knowledge, attitudes and

values, skills and sensibilities and ~y learning that results from efforts, direct

or indirect, intended or unintended". Education is therefore concerned ,vith

developing the totality ofthe individual. In Ghana, the mission of successive

governments since colonial times has been to pursue education to the ultimate

level and standard. The various educational reforms since 1951, all attest to

this claim. Parents and all stakeholders continue to cry out against the falling