To : The Principal of SMK Jalan Bunga, Sg. Panjang
From : Mohd Badrul Akram bin Sazali (Head Prefect)
Subject : Rise of Disciplinary problems
Date : 12 October 2012
Recently, there has been a drastic rise in disciplinary cases among the students of SMK Jalan Bunga, Sg. Panjang. It has caught the attention of many teachers and myself as the Head Prefect of this school. We do not want this scenario to continuously ruin the good reputation of this school. A survey and interviews have been carried out to investigate the core reasons towards this alarming issue. It has been identified that there are many causes that have led to this serious problem.
Among them are lack of parents attention. Parents nowadays are too busy with their work. Some of them are workaholics where they devote themselves to their job and rarely have time for their children. Whereas some parents nature of their work is that they go out early in the morning and come home late at night. When they return home, they are too tired to mix around with their children. When parents are not around for their children and do not monitor their childrens’ activities and who their children become friends with, this gives total freedom to the children to do whatever they like and wherever they like. The negative impact is that students will misuse the freedom given by their parents and may be influenced to carry out bad things that have been taught by their peers.
Moreover, the second reason is that they have no interest in their studies. This causes them to skip school. They rather prefer going to cyber cafes than learn in school. In addition, there have been a few students who have been caught by the discipline teacher yesterday as they sneaked out of school after recess and went to the nearest cyber café in this area. Besides, they do not practice the moral values that they have learnt. They do know