Students are the most important part of the population of our country. They are our country’s future. if they follow good moral values, they will take our country to the next level. If they will follow a disciplined life, they may free our country from all the social monsters. Discipline will also give the students a bright future. But these days the students enjoy being disciplined. Indiscipline in the students can now be seen very commonly. This indiscipline does not mean bunking classes or making noise in the classroom. They have taken this indiscipline to a higher level. It is almost seen daily that the students of a school or college are going on a strike or the students are using unfair means to copy in exams and if a teacher points out them, he is threatened. Student’s unrest is just like a threat to the education system of our country. Sometimes this indiscipline turns violent. The students try to hit the faculty of the educational institute or damage the assets of the institute. If this type of violent indiscipline is not managed or cooled down at the proper time then it may lead to a crime. In the past few decades, there were many news that a student killed a teacher, or the student burnt down the entire classroom and many such things. If the students are not guided at the correct stage then this may take the form of a new problem for the society.
Causes of Student’s Unrest
There are many causes of student’s unrest. Some of them are as follows:
- The Wrong Upbringing: The nature of the children is mainly governed by their upbringing. How the children are treated at their homes describes their behaviour outside the house. If the children are being spoiled by their parent with their excessive love, care and protection, they are indirectly making their child undisciplined. If they will make their house and every work related to their house centred on their child then this also a step towards making the child undisciplined. The child will get used to this behaviour. The child will start to show temper tantrums. If you will give up to his temper tantrums then the child will feel himself as very important. He will think that the rest of the world will bear his undisciplined behaviour. This is the wrong upbringing of the child. The child will start to show his tantrums everywhere. When he will grow up, he will show this kind of behaviour towards his teachers, friends and other unknown people. This may also take the shape of strikes and riots in schools and colleges. Whenever some teacher or other students do not agree towards the demand of the students they take revenge by boycotting their class, taking violent actions against the students or teachers. This is just because of the wrong upbringing of the students.
- Family Background: The family background also causes a lack of discipline in the student. The students who have their families associated with politics think that everything in the world belongs to them and the students whose family has a very high income think that they can buy literally everything with their money. Such an attitude makes them feel that they can do anything. These are the students who do not feel the need of studying and try to use unfair means of copying in the exams. When they are stopped from doing such things they threaten the teachers that they have a very strong family background and they will get the teacher suspended or will take away his job. There are also some cases in which the students try to bribe the teachers to let them copy in exams. With their money, these students try to leak the question papers before exams and when caught they threaten the authorities.
- Group Formation in the Institute: It usually seen in the institutes that some small fight divided all the students into groups in such a way that one group is totally against the other. They are considered enemies. Students become egoistic and do not let go of anything. This kind of attitude creates more and more problem amongst the student. The situation gets so worse that if a student from the other group touches them by mistake, it will become a fight. Such internal groups and fights in the students cause a lot of indiscipline. They bunk classes to fight with each other. The fight becomes violent. It may take the form of an internal riot.
- Non-responsive Nature of the Institute: Student’s unrest is not solely caused by the mistakes of the students. Sometimes the institute is also at the fault. The institute does not respond to the students. The students keep on saying something and the institutes just ignore them. Sometimes the students want to include something in their curriculum or have some problem with the faculty and they complain about it to the institution head. When this complaint is ignored for a long time, the students get angry and protest.
- Hike in Institutional Fees: Every student does not belong to a rich family. They may not be able to afford a very expensive fee structure. The hike in the fee of the institution is sometimes not accepted by the students. The institute should keep the fees constant for a particular batch of the student. The regular hike in fees causes anger in student and they protest.
- Deficiency of Assets: Sometimes the college campus is not as up to the mark as compared to fees they are taking from the students. They lack the number of resources like computers, lab equipment, furniture and the faculty as compared to the number of students. When the institute does not keep itself upgraded with the modern technology, it may cause protest in students.
Student’s Unrest-Remedies
The possible solutions to student’s unrest can be as follows:
- The Inclusion of Moral Values in the Syllabus: Discipline needs to be taught to the students from the very beginning. It cannot be taught in one day. So it would be better if the subject of moral values is included in the syllabus of schools from the very beginning. The students should be taught in schools how to behave with elders, how to solve the issues in a polite way, how to manage anger and how to avoid fights.
- Good Upbringing: The parents should teach their children to adjust in all kinds of situations. They should teach the students that the situation cannot be moulded according to them every time; sometimes they have to mould themselves according to the solutions. Putting forward their demands and showing tantrums when the demands are not fulfilled are not at all acceptable. In the colleges and universities, these tantrums take the shape of strikes. This would have been stopped if the parent would have handled their children’s mistake on time.
- Finding the Root Cause: Every undisciplined done by the students has reason due to which it is done. For example, sometimes the students go on strike if they are not satisfied with their faculty or the resources available to them. If the strikes have a genuine reason behind them then that reason should be cured. It is the duty of the officials in the institution to find the root cause behind the indiscipline created by the student and if that reason is genuine and curable, then it should be resolved on time.
- Regular Principal Students Meetings: In an institute, there are many decisions which need to be taken for the well-being of the students. It would be appreciable if the decisions are taken by having a discussion with the students. Every class should have class monitors or class representatives which will put forward the advices and needs of the other students in front of the authorities whenever the meetings are organized. In this way, the agitations in the students against the decisions taken by the authorities is stopped before the decisions are made.
- Counselling: If an institution has frequent strikes or protests by the students then the institute should organize frequent counseling sessions for the students. A counselor should be called to the institute who can guide the students on their behavior and explain to them all the possible ways in which they can handle a situation in a calm way.
- Avoiding Immediate Decisions: The institute should avoid taking immediate decisions. Before applying a new rule on the students, a proper notice should be displayed ten to fifteen days before the rule is to be enforced. In this way, the students will get time to think upon the new rule and present their views on it if they are not agreeing on it. But if they are notified on proper time, they will not get any time to present their views which will cause anger in them.
Conclusion
The nature of the students is always mistaken. Most of the people think that the students these days are filled with anger, attitude and ego. It is thought that the students have no interest in studying; they go to schools and colleges just to meet their friends and enjoy their time. But this is not true for all the students. If some students are losing their interest in studying then it is not their fault only. It is the institution’s fault also. They are lacking the resources or the ability to put the students on the right track. If the students are not guided at the right stage they will follow indiscipline. Dealing with the students I a strict way is not the right way. The students are children. They have a sensitive heart and mind. They need to be dealt with love and care. Rather than scolding them, they should be explained the thing in a polite way and they will definitely understand it.
