CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Before Nigeria became a modern society most of the groups that made up the geographical are lived in communities. In these communities there were rules of behavior and sanctions to punish many deviations from the laid down rules. At this time communities were not very large customs and tradition laid down by elders were strictly adhered to without questions. But over the years Nigerian has had many influences through her contact with foreigners and through the mass media to modify the acceptable norms of behaviors some of the influence appear to have been ill digested and misunderstood.
Many people from different communities were inter-mixed with urban areas and there are no known customs and traditions which guide the people’s behavior, as a result society is interested with all kinds of people whose misbehaviors and misdeeds are matter of a great concern to the society at large. Such is the situation that indiscipline within society has become a mirror for the schools which themselves are super imposed on the existing indigenous cultures of the communities in which appears to be a bye product of “modern” or “western” cultures of great concern to most people in various works of life. People such as teachers, Educationist, Administrators, parents, journalist, community leaders, church leader, clergymen and the government are concern in one way or the other.
As we all known education happened to be the greatest single industry in Nigeria and we noticed that million of Nigeria youths are daily trooping into various institutions of learning in pursuit of knowledge and general education of the mind. Both the federal and state government are making efforts every day to equalize educational opportunities to all Nigerians but these efforts of the government are faced with several problems and the problems is that of indiscipline. In Nigeria today, there appear to be a high degree of indiscipline which is contrary o the expected behavior of cultural people.
In schools and colleges the situation is worst off. Today school absenteeism, disobedience, oppression, lying, fighting, stealing, impersonation attack. On teachers lateness to school skipping classes, vandalizing of school property and various form of occultism have become reasonable practice among our youths. The school is supposed to be the major institution for socializing it has in recent years become breeding grounds for act of indiscipline. Today principles and members of staff find themselves in a school filled with students who are disposed to violence not only their fellow students but also
