School entertainment must be supervised
ENTERTAINMENT in schools has evolved over the years. From drama, debates and quizzes, the entertainment trend in schools has taken on the direction of a typical western high school entertainment.
EDITOR’S NOTE
ENTERTAINMENT in schools has evolved over the years. From drama, debates and quizzes, the entertainment trend in schools has taken on the direction of a typical western high school entertainment.
Television series, dances and movie nights are fast becoming the new form of entertainment. Students prefer this to the traditional entertainment like drama, cultural shows, quizzes and debating competitions.
However, educationists are faulting this new trend as a detriment to constructive education.
Discos, movie nights and television are not the best entertainment for school children. These have become so entrenched in some schools to the extent that refusing students to organise a dance and invite male or female colleagues can lead to a strike.
What used to be purely traditional entertainment has taken on a bigger dimension. What is reflected in night clubs is what some students are replicating in certain schools. This has not been helped by the poor supervision of entertainment programemes in schools.
Because in some schools prefects have power to keep the equipment like the television sets and DVD players, they abuse their powers, and watch in the comfort of their rooms with some of the students when other students are in class.
There is an urgent need for schools to revise the kind of entertainment programemes offered especially in secondary schools and to closely monitor students during these programemes.
The entertainment should be supervised by a carefully selected committee of students headed by a teacher.
There is a tendency in schools to choose an entertainment prefect on the basis of their knowledge about new trends in the entertainment industry. These are the type that go to night clubs during holidays and have vast knowledge about new movies and adult literature.
Certainly, if such a student is elected to be the entertainment prefect, he will promote this immoral entertainment in school, including sneaking in adult movies in schools and even encouraging others to escape from school to go for dances. School heads should review these entertainment programes
Arthur Baguma Nsimomwe,
abaguma@newvision.co.ug
ENTERTAINMENT in schools has evolved over the years. From drama, debates and quizzes, the entertainment trend in schools has taken on the direction of a typical western high school entertainment.
Television series, dances and movie nights are fast becoming the new form of entertainment. Students prefer this to the traditional entertainment like drama, cultural shows, quizzes and debating competitions.
However, educationists are faulting this new trend as a detriment to constructive education.
Discos, movie nights and television are not the best entertainment for school children. These have become so entrenched in some schools to the extent that refusing students to organise a dance and invite male or female colleagues can lead to a strike.
What used to be purely traditional entertainment has taken on a bigger dimension. What is reflected in night clubs is what some students are replicating in certain schools. This has not been helped by the poor supervision of entertainment programemes in schools.
Because in some schools prefects have power to keep the equipment like the television sets and DVD players, they abuse their powers, and watch in the comfort of their rooms with some of the students when other students are in class.
There is an urgent need for schools to revise the kind of entertainment programemes offered especially in secondary schools and to closely monitor students during these programemes.
The entertainment should be supervised by a carefully selected committee of students headed by a teacher.
There is a tendency in schools to choose an entertainment prefect on the basis of their knowledge about new trends in the entertainment industry. These are the type that go to night clubs during holidays and have vast knowledge about new movies and adult literature.
Certainly, if such a student is elected to be the entertainment prefect, he will promote this immoral entertainment in school, including sneaking in adult movies in schools and even encouraging others to escape from school to go for dances. School heads should review these entertainment programes
Arthur Baguma Nsimomwe,
abaguma@newvision.co.ug