EFFECT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS DISCIPLINARY PROBLEM ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1. BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY

Student’s disciplinary problem has become part of the average students in this country for quite a decade source. It has become a canker worm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the educational system and the authorities can no longer fold its hands watching this problem grow. Reports of student’s disciplinary problem have become weekly if not daily aairs on the pages of the Nigerian Dailies source. It is not only the press media, the electronic media is not le out in the crusade against students disciplinary problems. Acts of utter vandalism destruction of school property drug addiction truancy and delinquent behaviour and the like have been recorded out our secondary level. The student’s disciplinary problems at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy have reached such a high degree that it has become a perennial problem, which constitutes discussion. A lot has been said of student’s disciplinary problem at the secondary school level at various schools and colleges at seminars conference and symposia. In spite of the condemnation of problem there still exist in a regrettable and alarming proportion of rioting drug abuse truancy and other maladaptive behaviour among school level in Eghosa Christian academy. This decaying morality has been attributed to teachers, students, parent, and educational authorities, government e. t. c. Although it is very difficult to blame a particular arm of the society, the obvious facts remain that the standard of behaviour among secondary school student in Eghosa Christian academy has reached a stage whereby the problem has now become a societal one. This researcher is therefore intended to examine the academic the effect of student’s disciplinary problem on academic performance at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state with the intention of finding possible ways of eliminating them.

1. PURPOSE OF STUDY

Disciplinary problem among secondary school students is now a subject of concern to almost every member of the Nigerian society. It is therefore considered necessary to examine the eect of this problem on academic performance at this level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state. This study is considered significant because disciplinary problem in secondary school level could under mind the present eort by the government in bringing sanity in schools. If we must have a healthy society in future children who are regarded as the leaders of such a society must be guarded in their transition from adolescent to adulthood to ensure a better society in future. The purpose of this study therefore is: 1. To examine the effect of disciplinary problem on academic performance at the secondary school level in Eghosa Christian academy Ekiadolor Edo state. 2. To examine what could be responsible for this problem. 3. To make suggestion and recommendation from findings