A TALE OF TWO KINGS

A TALE OF TWO KINGS. Part one. 1samuel 17. David, a young poor humble shepherd, handpicked by God from the back side of the desert was made king over God's people. Not even when his father and the prophet tried to hide him did God forsake him. Same way, when its your turn to come out of obscurity and poverty, no one can hide you. (your amen is doubtful). Soon he began to conquer nations and subdue powers. It began to creep into his head. He did many more wonderful things: he killed Goliath, sang music to sooth king Saul, he wrote many songs and even prophesied about the birth of Christ. In fact, "he was a man after God's own heart". He was humble, forgiving and very romantic too, you know. All the above not withstanding, DAVID SINNED AGAINST GOD. He was an adulterer, and to top it up, he murdered and went ahead to marry the wife of the man he killed!!! You know the rest. There are instances where David even lied! How on earth could such a person still be a man after Gods own heart? Does God take delight in SIN? NO!!! But, man, DAVID HAD A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. when the prophet Nathan pointed out his sin to him, he repented. He sought forgiveness. David, like every other man after God's heart always admits his errors, mistakes and offences and quickly apologises. David never seeks justifications for his actions, neither does he look for others to blame it on nor gets angry at the man who points out his flaws to him. He quickly seeks forgiveness and corrects them. At the work place, the Davids are always the favorites of their bosses and the envy of their colleagues. At church, they don't miss honour from their leaders. in marriage, their spouses don't stop testifying of them. If you were used to defending and arguing your points before reading this post, BE LIKE DAVID. By Yao. E. Agbenyo. Www.yaoagbenyo.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/yafinc Please share. Don't edit. Plagiarism is a crime!!! 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Part one. 1samuel 17. David, a young poor humble shepherd, handpicked by God from the back side of the desert was made king over God's people. Not even when his father and the prophet tried to hide him did God forsake him. Same way, when its your turn to come out of obscurity and poverty, no one can hide you. (your amen is doubtful). Soon he began to conquer nations and subdue powers. It began to creep into his head. He did many more wonderful things: he killed Goliath, sang music to sooth king Saul, he wrote many songs and even prophesied about the birth of Christ. In fact, "he was a man after God's own heart". He was humble, forgiving and very romantic too, you know. All the above not withstanding, DAVID SINNED AGAINST GOD. He was an adulterer, and to top it up, he murdered and went ahead to marry the wife of the man he killed!!! You know the rest. There are instances where David even lied! How on earth could such a person still be a man after Gods own heart? Does God take delight in SIN? NO!!! But, man, DAVID HAD A DIFFERENT ATTITUDE. when the prophet Nathan pointed out his sin to him, he repented. He sought forgiveness. David, like every other man after God's heart always admits his errors, mistakes and offences and quickly apologizes. David never seeks justifications for his actions, neither does he look for others to blame it on nor gets angry at the man who points out his flaws to him. He quickly seeks forgiveness and corrects them. At the work place, the Davids are always the favorites of their bosses and the envy of their colleagues. At church, they don't miss honour from their leaders. in marriage, their spouses don't stop testifying of them. If you were used to defending and arguing your points before reading this post, BE LIKE DAVID. By Yao. E. Agbenyo. Www.yaoagbenyo.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/yafinc Please share. Don't edit. Plagiarism is a crime!!! Part two coming soon about a king rarely known.😋😋

WHICH PARENT WILL YOU BECOME? MAXWELL GAVI VOLTA When it comes to how short or tall we appear, traces have been made to genetic factors that offspring inherit from their parents. Zeroing in on this premise, it is palpable that our parents have great roles to perform with regards our intellectual and physical growth. But, what children receive from their parents per their intellectual and physical growth leaves much to be desired. To say that it is bad will be an understatement, it is totally chaotic, barbaric and dehumanising. This is more than meets the eyes of a common man, hence it calls for paradigm shift. Basically, there are two great categories of parents in our modern society. The one category that creates such mischief, penury, misery, chaos and curse and could unanimously be called devil incarnates. This category of parents litters the environment with children and blame their family and the government for their own created plight. They have a common trait. They actually depict and prove beyond all reasonable doubts that indeed humans belong to the kingdom Animalia. Their character traits differ in no respect to that of agama lizards, dogs, goats and cattle. The female reminisces the agama lizards. Objectively speaking, if one surreptitiously observes agama lizards about to lay eggs, lizards only dig hole and lay the eggs in and leave the eggs to their fate regardless of them being highly susceptible to predators. The warm sand will hatch the eggs and the offspring comes out to face the harsh conditions of this weird world and this huge transcendental event called life. They are to fend for themselves since their parents forgot where they kept their eggs. This is highly ubiquitous as it pertains to our mothers. The root cause is when these ‘undeserved mothers’ struggle to either pinpoint the fathers or the so called-fathers decline the responsibility, because the child came to the world out of wedlock. Isn’t it strange to hear or see babies being put in rubber bags and dumped near the gutters or placed in front of public toilets? The worst of all is the fathers. They represent the worst type of animals per child nurturing. They can be compared to goats, dogs, and donkeys. Again, if one watched billy goats in the countryside chasing a nanny goat on heat, they usually move in groups of three or four. As the mating continued, one billy goat will gain dominance over activities at that joyous moment and leave others at disadvantages. The rest unfortunate billy goats will hallucinate, bleat and circumrotate in a winding gyre while the fortunate goat engrossed in a sporadic spurt of orgasm until it is tired. Being greedy and self-aggrandising, on seeing others yapping and snapping in its face attempts a second round. During this uphill task, the billy goat thinks it is the only goat in the world at the material moment. Indeed, this kind of man lived aptly well with animals and behaved as such. Like cocks, goats and dogs, the man shrinks his responsibilities for the young ones he procreated. Because, these parents do not accept any responsibility of the young ones they procreate, the little resources they have are spent lavishly in drinking bars. Both men and women leave their children to their fate and get addicted to alcohol and hard drugs. They drink alcohol more than fish drink water and smoke like chimney. I wonder if they do not know the effects of smoking. Smoking destroys ones health by making you short of breath, it dirties one and one’s environment. It gives those who smoke stale smell. Mostly, there is a medical evidence that smoking causes fatal illness, causes certain birth defects, it destroys one’s psyche and physique. Smoking is akin to frying one’s brain which eventually kills one’s brain cells. Practically, it is just a means of damaging one’s pocket. It is just a way of pushing oneself into the clutches of abject poverty. Does it then mean that these reckless parents do not know that they are watching millions of cedis go up in smoke? So why do they smoke? There may be two possible absurd reasons. Some do it when they are sad or happy and others think it is a sign of being grown up. How daft! Stupid indeed! There are only two moments in ones live – happy moments and sad moments. So when one gets intoxicated by drugs and alcoholic drink because he claims to be elated or happy and he again smokes and drinks in stormy circumstances, what then is one doing to one’s body? One actually forgets his problem when totally intoxicated, but as soon as one gets out of the clutches of these opium, the problem repeats itself and tend to be more severe. The big question is when will one live without these opium and beverages? When will one stop it? The children of these reckless parents naturally face perils and destitution due to the uncouth, uncultured behaviours and reckless parental traits. Their talents suffer harnessing, their psychological and physical growth is hampered. Those who smiled to fortune by dint of grace to have the chance to eat in canteen and stain the classroom blocks with urine, their minds have become thorny and rocky ground on which their educator’s seed refuse to germinate. The unfortunate ones, where lies the fate of these children? Where will they barricade themselves against nightfall? Where will they enclose themselves against torrential night rain? Will they continue to forever live in live pain and agony? Is it worth their fault? Why should destiny be cruel to them? The other category of parents is the one that creates harmony, nourishment and hope. This category of parents could unanimously be called as vicars of God. They take charge of the young ones they procreate. Like the angels and archangels, they are at the beck and call of their children, they provide entirely the basic psychological and physiological needs of their children, they see to their children’s moral conduct. If it is true that humans belong to the kingdom Animalia, then this category of parents can aptly be equated to the marsupial. Like the marsupial carries its baby in a pouch, the female parents of this category also carry their young ones and place them at times in a crib, protect them against every stormy weather. Their male counterparts differ not, they behave just like the male eagles do. Examining carefully the genesis of the amorous relation between eagles, the female eagle takes the male eagle through a herculean task to ascertain its caring prowess. Tactfully, the female eagle flies high in the sky in anticipation that the male will follow. When it follows, the female eagle drops one of its feathers. As the feather falls, the male eagle must chase it and get it back. This and many other uphill tasks will follow till the female eagle is satisfied with the male that mating could take place. Like the eagle, serious minded would-be mothers at the time of dating equally take their men through these ordeals. These prepare these parents for the task ahead of them, no wonder they execute their duties well. This kind of parents is in minority in the society. They need to be eulogized since they are responsible for the complete success of the young ones they procreate- they revivify the standard of family life. Indeed, these are the parents who deserve gifts and praise words on mothers or father’s day, for not all who born and to be called parents but those who born and bred them are the true parents. But there is the need to extend an olive branch to our reckless parents. At times it isn’t their fault. In a word, to avoid this reckless parental traits and secure the future of our children and curb child neglect, all hands must be on deck. In fact, our traditional family system needs a serious overhaul to achieve positive results. There must be sporadic family life education programme to spew the dangers inherent in living a reckless parental lifestyle. Brides should be given grooms with good moral standard and we equally need a radical reorientation with regard to our value and educational system in the country. This will in a way help minimise child neglect and boost human resource in the country. BY:MAXWELL GAVI Ghana – West Africa 0248076983/0203342688 maxwellgavi74@gmail.com

YAO E. AGBENYO

NAME : AGBENYO YAO EBENEZER GENDER : MALE DATE OF BIRTH : 14TH September, 1989 ADDRESS : BOX 191, TEMA CELL : +233274864449, +233543556235, +233502289174 EMAIL : yaoagbenyo@gmail.com Blog : www.yaoagbenyo.blogspot.com PLACE OF BIRTH : KPOI-ETE, PRAMPRAM, TEMA. NATIONALITY : GHANAIAN MARRITAL STATUS : SINGLE LANGUAGES SPOKEN : ENGLISH, EWE, TWI, GA, FANTE, FRENCH, DANGME. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND INSTITUTION CERTIFICATE DURATION UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION B.A (hon.) ENGLISH Ed. 2010-14 METHODIST DAY SEC. WASSCE 2006-2009 MANHEAN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BECE 2004-2006 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY NATURE OF WORK INSTITUTION DURATION NATIONAL RECRUITMENT OFFICER Debate Ghana Ass. July 2014 to Date. TEACHING (NSS) AHAFOMAN SHS SEPT. (2014)-PRESENT TEACHING ODA INT. SHS JAN –July, 2014 INTERNSHIP AKIM STATE COLLEGE SEPTEMBER to DEC, 2013 ATTACHMENT MANHEAN SHS MAY-AUGUST, 2013 TEACHING GRACELAND INT. SCH. MAY-AUGUST, 2012 SOCIAL STUDIES TUTOR MANHEAN JHS MAY-AUGUST, 2011 MANAGER FRANCO ENTERPRISE JAN.-AUGUST, 2010 EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT SEPT.-DEC., 2009 TEACHING GRACELAND INT. SCH. MAY-AUGUST, 2009. POSITIONS HELD President, Boys Only Inc. Chaplain, Oda Int. Sen. High Sch. C.E.O. Youth And Future Inc. Founder and president Youth On Missions Int. Patron- AKIMSCO S.U. Youth leader, deeper christian life min., tema and oda Vice-President, Debate Club, uew Chaplain, Ghartey Hall Public relations officer, UEW Chaplaincy Board President, MEDASSOSA, UEW-Local Maintainance Co-Ordinator, DLCF, UEW Vice-President, SRC, MEDASS Precentor, UNESCO Commission-Choir, Ghana Bible Study Coordinator, GHAMSU House Prefect, St. John House. Fellowship Leader, DLSO AWARDS Best Behaved Boy (bbb) Best Literature In English Student Best Student in French (Awarded at the silver jubilee of MEDASS, TEMA.) PUBLICATIONS Literature Genius (text book for SHS and JHS) Kill it Now, a motivational book Guiding Gadgets for Gold Getters, a motivational book. (Unpublished) Indelible Prints, a book of quotes (unpublished) Spontaneous Overflow, an anthology of my own poems. Essence of Decency (drama) Is it Nothing to You? Watch Dog my Foot Is this a Choir or Club Secrets of Academic Excellence QUALITIES God fearing and humble. Has patience for slow learners. Energetic, action Driven and solution Oriented. Good interpersonal relationship. Very friendly but firm Respectful and very committed to duty. Hardworking, reliable and honest. A computer literate. Able to absorb pressure and deliver on time. Debate Judge Motivator HOBBIES Reading Writing Listening to inspirational music Counseling Research and evangelism OTHER EXPERIENCES Chief Judge Teacher Trainees Debate 2013 Speaker University of Education delegation to Ghana Tertiary Debating Championship Visiting counselor at different forums Quiz host Co-host, The down hearted, Radio Windy Bay Polling agent, Progressive Peoples Party. REFERENCES Dr. Amma Abrafi Adjei, Lecturer, Department of English Ed., UEW. Phone: (+233)244273980 email: abrafigh@gmail.com Mr. Martin Kyiileyang, Lecturer, Department of English Ed., UEW. Phone: (+233)209313064 Lawyer (Mrs.) Asiedu-Ofei, Gloria Barrister at law and solicitor, Phone: (+233)206020366 email: gasieduofei@hotmail.com Box CS8810, Tema. DATE………………………….. SIGN……………………

YEN BO BIO Agbenyo Yao E.A.R. We drown in a river not by falling in but remaining there in. The tragedy of life is not that we die but that many people reach the point of death only to realize that they had never really lived. Once you’ve cared for none, and lived for none and worked for none and sacrificed for none but self and I, dearly beloved you’ve never lived. Once you fail to try and fail to risk and fail to dare in life, dearly beloved you’ve never lived. The tragedy of life is not that we die but that things die in men while yet they live. Somewhere along the way of life you might feel hurt or disappointed, or scared or even have your heart broken by someone. Do you resign to fate and decide never again to try? Do we say because my mum had not a good marriage and dad and neighbours are always at war with their spouses we shall not venture to marry? Or shall we say because I proposed and she disposed, never again to try? Shall we say because he came with lip and ate and left not buying, never again to sell? Or shall we say because dad had not a school climate of rosy and cosy life, never again to school? Or shall we say because one died in first year “unquized”, never again to school? Or shall we say because we took a course, sat an exam and failed or perhaps had some papers referred, never again to try? Or shall we say because I had a poor grade in a lecturer’s course; never again to take his or her course? Or shall we say because I sat some papers and had it all devils on the cross; we shall not strive to destroy the Ds? Or shall we say because we try to learn an instrument and failed, never to learn to sing or play a flute? Indeed! It is according to the contours of the old ropes that we build new ones, but if an earlier wine tasted sour, is that an excuse never to taste another? Or shall we say because we sponsored ten students to school and they all left the church never again to help our youth? Tell me, shall we say because we voted several times and not had what we wanted, never again to vote? Are there not different weather conditions every time? Bro., are there not times when it is super cold and the blanket pinches as pin and times when the sun burns like fire? Are there not times in life when the weather is fair and cool when we wished it were same all day? Ah! Are there not times when the moon disappears at night, the stars give way and it rains anyway? Are there not times, ladies and gentlemen even in the day when darkness falls? Have we not experienced rain while yet the sun shone as bright? Dearest dear, such and such is life! Why then do we nag and complain and curse and blame God, throwing in the towel, losing hope and calling it quits? To say “kekrereke yen boo bio”x3 when things go wrong, ladies and gentlemen, is a sign of immaturity. Why can’t we still hope in God and trust Him to do as He’s said, trying as many times as we may to change lives rather than resigning to fate and saying “kekrereke men boo bio!” Date composed: wed, 31/10/12

AHAFO

THE YOUTH AND FUTURE INC THAT THE NEGLECT OF OUR CULTURAL VALUES HAS IMMENSELY CONTRIBUTED TO INDISCIPLINE AMONG TODAY’S YOUTH. As the principal speaker against the motion, I shall for the sake of our debate and time, define the borders of the Debate and confine it to the school. The causes of indiscipline can be divided into two groups, causes within school and causes outside school. It must be observed that each of these causes immensely contribute to indiscipline in the youth therefore the temptation to dwell on one particular cause as the most affecting cause must be overcome. The first speaker has already defined the motion that notwithstanding, The chair, ladies and gentlemen, lets answer these questions. 1. Is there indiscipline in the youth? If no, then there is no need for us to be here but since you and I are here, it means we admit the fact that there is evidence of indiscipline amongst the youth. 2. What are the causes? Our opponents are dwelling on the neglect of our cultural values to make their case but the chair, after my exposition, you will realize that even if there is a neglect of our cultural values, it has not in any way gendered indiscipline amongst the youth. 3. Have we neglected our cultural values? We haven’t. but rather what has been left out our indigenous culture are the negative aspects of our culture such as the trokosi, cruel widowhood rights and FGM. Ladies and gentlemen, culture is dynamic therefore as J.A Kufuor puts it, “our culture is going through transition” so I see no reason why we should misconstrue this transition for a neglect. This implies that though there are omissions now, those are natural thing that every culture goes through. 4. Have the part of our cultural values that have been subtracted caused any indiscipline? I am still waiting to be convinced as to how the abandonment of cruel practices such as FGM and trokosi lead to indiscipline. The bottom line is this: although there have been subtractions in our culture, it is a natural thing every culture goes through and these subtractions must not be misconstrued as neglect as if the thing is good and we are not taking care of it. 5. Indiscipline is an inherent trait in every culture.so even when the said culture was at its peak, indiscipline was here and shall remain with us till the rapture takes place. Therefore one cannot and must not say that the neglect of our cultural values has immensely contributed to the indiscipline amongst the youth. Having established my case, let me show you the real causes of the canker of indiscipline that has eaten up the youth. WITHIN THE SCHOOL. Visiting teachers like service personnel. In this case, the teacher handling the lesson is a supply teacher and so is not recognised by the learners as a figure of authority, because he/she is only temporarily teaching and that class. Also the supply teacher may not know the individual names of the pupils - this may give certain kids the excuse to ignore the teacher while he/she is attempting to communicate with them (it is indiscipline for learners to ignore their teacher.). It will take some time before they pretend to notice the teacher actually wants their attention. Name games might be played where the pupils assume the names of their friends for example during the register, to confuse the teacher. 1. In a case the teacher is foreign and cannot speak good English - the pupils can use it to their advantage by purposefully misunderstanding their teacher. Another way for pupils to shirk, is to engage in friendly conversation with the foreign teacher. Asking questions about his or her homeland is often a very successful way of enticing them to talk about subjects with very little relation to the lesson. 2. The teacher may be late and so the first few minutes of the lesson were spent in an environment devoid of the basic classroom rules. This bad foundation for the lesson makes pupils more prone to rebellious behavior. 3. Its the last lesson of the day. For any teacher, such a time of the day to teach is generally a misfortune. In anticipation of the end of the day, pupils take less care over their work and may lose commitment, as thoughts turn to what they have to do after the lesson, e.g piling up homework to deal with or an angry girlfriend who needs talking to. 4. Of course the standard of discipline is likely to go down even further if a lengthy holiday awaits the end of a Friday afternoon lesson or indeed awaits the end of a school week. 5. Poor teaching. Usually a teacher who makes more of an effort to connect with the pupils is more likely to gain their attention. But reading in a monotone from a text book before telling the pupils to get on with some task in their books is just asking for the paper planes to take flight and shouting across the classroom. 6. Outnumbered class or overcrowded class. It becomes quite difficult to control a very large class. Teaching is a tough job and giving the teacher student ratio in our country one should expect nothing but an increase in indiscipline. These are simply managerial and pedagogical issues and have nothing to do with the neglect of our cultural values even if there were reason enough to say that. 7. Some people are inherently indiscipline. According to Tim Lahaye, a temperament author and preacher, some people such as the phlegmatic and the sanguine are naturally indisciplined. This has nothing to do with cultural neglect. My opponents should check themselves up and come again. 8. Amongst higher ability groups, certain pupils may come to the conclusion that they are intellectually superior to the teacher and to their coleagues they misbehave because should the teacher come up to ask them a question about the topic under discussion, they would answer without a problem and so taunt him/her, without feeling any incentives to do the work. Instead they talk to friends, chuck stuff about. 9. Negative relations between pupils. There may also be unwelcome incidents that could occur between pupils at any time, causing tempers to occasionally flare. As you can probably guess, such emotions are likely to somewhat dim the awareness of school disciplines for the pupil(s) in question. CAUSES OUTSIDE SCHOOL; this may possibly include the following: 1. The parents of pupils may have no interest in education and so this encourages their children to assume a similar attitude, provoking rebellious behaviour. Has a cultural abandonment got anything to do with this? You are the cause of your own problems. According to professor Kwakuvi Azasu, a senior lecturer at the university of education, “the attitude of a parent largely affects their wards’ conducts in public and in school.” Just as the saying goes like father, like son. A crab can never birth a bird. Period and these issues ladies and gentlemen, have nothing to do with neglect of cultural values. They are simply pedagogical issues. 2. Pupils may be abused at home. Research has proven that children from broken homes tend to be more indisciplined than those from homes where the couple stay together. Why talk of the neglect of culture when all you have to do is to set the home right. Or is it only Ghanaian culture that encourages parents to stay together?Its not going to be as easy for a pupil from an unstable background to focus on school work as one from a more secure one. After all, what is a pupil who is mistreated at home more likely to be thinking about, will he be thinking of what's the formula for the circumference of a circle or, will my dad get drunk again tonight and threaten me with that knife? To such Pupils, being tough is the way to survive at home, so why should they think otherwise when they turn up at school? According to Peter Kofi Afful a Lecturer at Pentecost University and the University of Education, “people are products of circumstances and the environment.” This implies that, what you see more and experience is what makes you. Joel Osteen says “you are the product of your words.” In effect, a student who hears profane words everyday will definitely produce such words most of the time. Why blame this on neglect of cultural values? Change your thinking, change your mind! 3. Home life for some might involve being overindulged by parents where they are criticized and harshly reprimanded any time they go wrong so pupils expect the same when they come to school. And these are the causes of indiscipline. Neglect of cultural values has nothing at all to do with this!. 4. Again in the domestic context, pupils may not ever have been set clear boundaries at home and so its only natural that they are going to find abiding by a whole set of new rules at school a suffocating prospect which limits their usual freedom immeasurably. 5. The Ghanaian community is made of people from different cultures in which what is discipline in one may not be in another, so why then accuse the neglect of cultural values as the cause? Many nations today suffer critical illness courtesy of what corruption among people (citizens and foreign nationals) and not being able to control and regulate the effects. Thus, the pace of nation’s development is completely declining resulting to fear that this situation may go beyond uncontrollable climax. The situation is what the entire world is suffering today. The question here is; what are the effects of moral profligate to our nation’s development? The global economic meltdown is a typical example here. If I may ask, what are the underlying structures behind this? When huge money are spent recklessly or looted by the people in government, the result is the case. When two elephants are fighting, the grasses suffer. This cliche reminds me of the poverty situation in most developing nations of the world where their leaders indulge in looting their nations’ treasury and not finding a means of caring for the less privileged even when funds are released by developed nations. This resulted into unemployment for the teaming youths and school alumnae creating a big vacuum to accommodate more corrupt practices by these idle youths. Most of the youths turn restive in kidnapping, assassinations, robbery and terrorism. The problems created by some nations’ leaders and mostly in the developing nations contribute to neglect in the rule of law, no respects to human right and thus re-generating into more corrupt practices eating deeper into the nations’ fabrics. Another big effect of moral profligate is from media and their impact triggered by sophisticated technology and civilization. The information disseminated to the general public could lead to virtual practices unknown to the nation before now. Most practices like the abuse of sex and sexuality, practicing of witchcraft and indulging in drug trafficking among other crimes are seriously heating the development of our nations today. Thus, the media should be scrutinized to deliver a sound and error free information gearing towards building our nations. Government at all level, corporate bodies and individuals are therefore called to pay attention to this critical situation affecting the entire world today. The reversal of the current trend would do us better and re-create unity, peace and love among nations. There are many causes of indiscipline in the youth found in today's society. One of the main causes being the lack of parent involvement as well as parents not making children responsible for their own wrong doings and failures. Too often, parents are unaware of what is going on in their children's school until the child comes home with a failing grade. The parent is then ready to march into school and reprimand the teacher instead of the child. Children pick up on these behaviors and think that every time they are insubordinate that the teacher will be forced to take the blame. Youth that are not in school are more likely to be involved in criminal activities. They are also more likely to become drug users or to become alcoholics. Sociologists and psychologists have been very interested in studying the causes of youth violence, and it has become clear that it is a complex social problem. While it sometimes can be connected to a tolerance of violence at home and within the community (including the media), it's not necessarily the direct result of family violence or even of media violence alone. Media violence, family violence and violence within communities are all ways in which a general tolerance of violence are expressed. Interestingly, recent research suggests that sibling violence has a strong connection to youth violence. Brothers and sisters who engage in violent or bullying behaviors at home are more likely to be guilty of bullying and violence among their peers too, and as they get older they are also more prone to dating violence. When parents fail to monitor bullying among siblings at young ages, tolerance of those behaviors is implied. As children grow older, they apply the same behavior to all their other relationships. In addition to being connected to low levels of parent involvement, youth violence is also connected to low socio-economic status and other factors that are difficult to untangle since they are somewhat interdependent. There can be many factors that contribute to parents being unable to monitor their children's relationships appropriately, and this may be one connection to lower socioeconomic status. For instance a single mother who doesn't have a strong support network of family and friends to help may have little time to monitor children as she would otherwise. It can be tempting to oversimplify the causes of youth violence--but social issues like this one need to be addressed on several levels if they are to be prevented. reserve script

THAT THE NEGLECT OF OUR CULTURAL VALUES HAS IMMENSELY CONTRIBUTED TO INDISCIPLINE AMONG TODAY’S YOUTH. Mr. chairman, panel of adjudicators, the time keeper, teachers and headmasters present, co debaters, ladies and gentlemen, we have a serious motion before us that brings to the floor a serious topic that is of much interest to every stake holder of our time. That the neglect of our cultural values has contributed immensely to indiscipline among the youth. As the principal speaker against the motion, I shall for the sake of our debate and time, define the borders of the Debate and confine it to the school. The causes of indiscipline can be divided into two groups, causes within school and causes outside school and It must be noted that each of these causes immensely contribute to indiscipline in the youth therefore the temptation to dwell on one particular cause as the most affecting cause must be overcome. The first speaker has already defined the motion, that notwithstanding, The chair, ladies and gentlemen, lets answer these questions to enable us trace the line of argument. 1. Is there indiscipline in the youth? If no, then there is no need for us to be here but since you and I are here, it means we admit the fact that there is evidence of indiscipline amongst the youth. So yes! there is evidence of indiscipline amongst the youth. If so, 2. What then are the causes? Our opponents are dwelling on a said neglect of our cultural values to make their case but the chair, after my exposition, you will realize that even if there is a neglect of our cultural values, it has not in any way gendered indiscipline amongst the youth. 3. Have we neglected our cultural values? We against the motion are saying No! We haven’t, because our opponents cannot prove their case but rather what has been left out of our indigenous culture are the negative aspects of our culture such as the trokosi, cruel widowhood rights and FGM. Ladies and gentlemen, culture is dynamic therefore as J.A Kufuor puts it, “our culture is going through transition and these transitions take the form of omissions and additions ” so I see no reason why we should misconstrue this transition for a neglect. This implies that though there are omissions now, those are natural thing that every culture goes through. Therefore, it cannot be argued that a neglect of our cultural values has resulted in indiscipline among the youth. 4. Have the part of our cultural values that have been subtracted caused any indiscipline? I am still waiting to be convinced as to how the abandonment of cruel practices such as FGM and trokosi can lead to indiscipline. These have nothing to do with indiscipline. The bottom line is this: although there have been subtractions in our culture, it is a natural thing every culture goes through and these subtractions must not be misconstrued as neglect and therefore has not in anyway contributed to indiscipline among the youth. 5. Is there any culture or group of people anywhere in the world in which indiscipline doesn’t abound? Indiscipline is an inherent trait in every culture moreover even when the said culture was at its peak, indiscipline was here and shall remain with us till the rapture takes place. Even the Holy Bible acknowledges this in Rom.3:23 that all have sinned and indiscipline is part of sin, therefore one cannot and must not say that the neglect of our cultural values has immensely contributed to the indiscipline amongst the youth. Having established my case, let me show you the real causes of the canker of indiscipline that has eaten up the youth. WITHIN THE SCHOOL. 1. Visiting teachers like service personnel. In a case where the teacher handling the lesson is a supply teacher and so is not recognised by the learners as a figure of authority, indiscipline may prevail. Also the supply teacher may not know the individual names of the pupils - this may give certain kids the excuse to ignore the teacher while he/she is attempting to communicate with them (it is indiscipline for learners to ignore their teacher.). 2. If the teacher is foreign and cannot speak good English - the pupils can make fun of their teacher if he doesn’t seem to have a good control of the language of instruction. There may be giggles and fun making during the lesson and this is indiscipline. 3. The teacher may be late and so the first few minutes of the lesson were spent in an environment devoid of the basic classroom rules. This bad foundation for the lesson makes pupils more prone to rebellious behavior. And these points Mr. chairman are the leading causes of indiscipline according to the GES communiqué issued during the GNAT youth week celebrated at Somanya recently. Nowhere, I repeat, nowhere was the neglect of cultural values mentioned as a leading cause of indiscipline. Except may be my opponents just want to make a mountain out of an ant hill. Let me give you more. 4. Its the last lesson of the day. For any teacher, such a time of the day to teach is generally a misfortune. In anticipation of the end of the day, pupils take less care over their work and may lose commitment, as thoughts turn to what they have to do after the lesson like going to deal with an angry girlfriend or seeing a new catch. 5. Of course the standard of discipline is likely to go down even further if a lengthy holiday awaits the end of a Friday afternoon lesson. 6. Poor teaching. Usually a teacher who makes more of an effort to connect with the pupils is more likely to gain their attention. But reading in a monotone from a text book before telling the pupils to get on with some task in their books is just asking for the paper planes to take flight and shouting across the classroom. If a teacher does not know his subject well according to prof. Naana Jane Opoku, “there is no way he won’t meet indiscipline, he will meet it in red and gold and green with a black star on the forehead of his students.” 7. Another cause is an Outnumbered class or overcrowded class. It becomes quite difficult to control a very large class. “Teaching is a tough job and giving the teacher student ratio in our country one should expect nothing but an increase in indiscipline” says prof. E.N Abaka, UEW campus lens. Mr. chairman, these are simply managerial and pedagogical issues and have nothing to do with the neglect of our cultural values. 8. Some people are inherently indiscipline. According to Tim Lahaye, a temperament author and preacher, some people such as the phlegmatic and the sanguine are naturally indiscipline. This has nothing to do with cultural neglect. My opponents should check themselves up and come again probably after we have been adjudged winners of this debate. 9. Amongst higher ability groups, certain pupils may think that they know more than the teacher and their colleagues so they misbehave because if the teacher comes up to ask them a question about the topic under discussion, they would answer without a problem so they misbehave, without feeling any incentives to do the work. 10. Negative relations between pupils. There may also be unwelcome incidents that could occur between pupils at any time, causing tempers to occasionally flare. As you can probably guess, such emotions are likely to somewhat dim the awareness of school disciplines for the pupil(s) in question. Judge for yourselves, have these got anything to do with cultural values and neglect? Look! Even my opponents are responding admiringly. Do we need to continue this debate all? Well for formality sake, we shall proceed but we are winning anyway since our judges are very fair and loving. CAUSES OUTSIDE SCHOOL; this may possibly include the following: 1. The parents of pupils may have no interest in education and so this encourages their children to assume a similar attitude; provoking, rebellious behavior. Has a cultural abandonment got anything to do with this? You are the cause of your own problems. According to professor Kwakuvi Azasu, a senior lecturer at the university of education, “the attitude of a parent largely affects their wards’ conducts in public and in school.” Just as the saying goes like father, like son. A crab can never birth a bird. Period and these issues ladies and gentlemen, have nothing to do with neglect of cultural values. They are simply pedagogical issues. 2. Youths that are abused at home will definitely be indiscipline. Research has proven that children from broken homes tend to be more indiscipline than those from homes where the couple stay together. Daily graphic, Monday sixth January 2014, according to Harriet Baidoo, “children run away from home because of broken homes”. Why talk of the neglect of culture when all you have to do is to set the home right. Or is it only Ghanaian culture that encourages parents to stay together? After all, what is a pupil who is mistreated at home more likely to be thinking about, will he be thinking of what's the formula for the circumference of a circle or, will my dad get drunk again tonight and threaten me with that knife? To such Pupils, being tough is the way to survive at home, so why should they think otherwise when they turn up at school? According to Peter Kofi Afful a Lecturer at Pentecost University and the University of Education, “people are products of circumstances and the environment.” This implies that, what you see more and experience is what makes you. Joel Osteen says “you are the product of your words.” In effect, a student who hears profane words everyday will definitely produce such words most of the time. Why blame this on neglect of cultural values? Change your thinking, change your mind! 3. Home life for some might involve being overindulged by parents where they are criticized and harshly reprimanded any time they go wrong so they expect the same when they come to school. And these are the causes of indiscipline. Neglect of cultural values has nothing at all to do with this!. 4. Again in the domestic context, pupils may not ever have been set clear boundaries at home therefore they are not used to rules and regulations so its only natural that they are going to find abiding by a whole set of new rules at school a suffocating prospect which limits their usual freedom immeasurably. 5. The Ghanaian community is made of people from different cultures in which what is discipline in one may not be in another, so why then accuse the neglect of cultural values as the cause? In sum, though certain aspects of the Ghanaian culture have been omitted, we have not neglected the values because the values are still present with us, and though there is evidence of indiscipline in our youths, different factors have contributed to this indiscipline and we cannot and must not associate it with neglect of cultural values. So soon, I have brought my address to a close but I am glad our judges, dressed so beautifully and beaming with smiles will adjudge us the winner of this year’s debate. Thank you. (THIS IS A RESERVE SCRIPT)

AGAINST THE MOTION 2nd speaker Mr. Chairman, panel of judges, all protocol observed, I am Bright, from Ahafoman Senior High Technical School, the supporting speaker against the motion that “the neglect of our cultural values has contributed immensely to indiscipline amongst today’s youth.” My lead opposition member showed us clearly how the neglect of our cultural values has not in any way led to the imminent indiscipline amongst the youth. She spoke about the extended family system and the beggarly spirit Ghanaians call hospitality, as well as some primitive practices that have rather expanded the tentacles of indiscipline and widened the scope of youthful hooliganism in our country. her points were so strong and that is why I believe we are winning this debate. No wonder our opponents spent all the time making baseless argument that can hardly stand the test of time. To add to those points, obedience as a value has largely contributed to indiscipline. I will ask my opponents, if you think its so good to obey, why were you Ghanaians so happy with the former president JEA Mills when he refused to heed the caution from David Cameron who postulated that we accept homosexuals or risk any aid from the European Union.? If your father asks you to kill your mum for supper, will you do it just because obedience is a value? Education wise, honorable chairperson, our culture places more value on male education while the female was relegated to the kitchen. If values were that good, why are you girls not in the kitchen? Further more, the value that children do not speak when adults are speaking is an infringement on the rights and freedoms of these children and ones they become tired of this “imprisonment”, they begin to explode. This is what rather promotes indiscipline and not the neglect of it. The value we place on riches and wealth has rather increased the crave for wealth and power at all cost amongst the yoputh leading to “sakawa”, internet fraud and other social vices we are complaining about today. Conclusively Mr. chairman, to argue that the neglect of our cultural values has contributed immensely to indiscipline amongst the youth is a futile effort and we have successfully disproved that by filing ten strong points against this motion, and these points are: 1. Indiscipline is an inherent trait. 2. Even when the culture was at it peak, there was indiscipline. 3. Some of these practices are primitive 4. The extended family system enables the youth to outwit parents. 5. There is more to fear in friends than foes 6. The marriage system entails practices that foster indiscipline 7. The Ghanaian naming system promotes egoism which leads to indiscipline. 8. Leadership inheritance genders indiscipline. 9. Male child education is upheld which causes females to misbehave. 10. That children don’t speak when adult speak is an infringement. 11. Riches and wealth as esteemed in Ghana makes the youth to behave uncontrollably. 12. Obedience as a value permits foreigners to rule over us and let others infringe on our rights. 13. Society’s values are simply evolving and not deteriorating 14. Everyone has a different definition for values. 15. Change is inevitable With fifteen strong points against this motion, and with these wonderful judges, I am smiling because we are going home with this trophy. GOD BLESS YOU.