Students' Quarrel on the Way to School

 Written by: Mir Aqa Etibar

When children go to school for the first time, everything is new to them, even the other students who come together as classmates, but most of them love each other without knowing each other, share their edibles, pens, and notebooks but not all the students are alike, some of them fight with each other inside or outside the school and this quarrel causes problems for students.

AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some people about this issue.

A teacher, Madeena says: “one day two students fight with each other and one of them broke the tooth of the other.”

A student, Shaheen a resident of Paktia province says: “when I was going to school, some boys were waiting for forme on the way to school and they were always beating me and were grabbing my pen and notebooks. One day they broke my nose bone and now my nose is tilted.”

What do people think about the fighting of students?

Madeena says: “Some students became disappointed in the class due to the shortage of chairs, as they could not fight in front of the teacher in the class, they fight outside the school.”

Shaheen a resident of Kapisa province says: “some of my classmates could not learn their daily lessons and they were asking me to do their homework and they were waiting for cheating on the exam days. I was afraid of the teacher, I could not help them and they had been beating me outside the school.”

Palwasha, a headmaster of a school says: “When some students fight in school or on the way to school, we invite their parents to school to discuss the issue with them but they don’t care about it and do not come to school.”

How could families, school administration and teacher solve this issue?

A mother, Suraya Wardak says: “I am a mother of five children and they all are students. When they go to school, I am afraid that they might fight to some other students on the way to school and might create problems for us. One day the school administration invited me to school and told that one of my children has beaten another boy on the way to school. I did not share the issue with his father because I was afraid that he might make the issue bigger. I went to that boy’s house and asked for his apology and I reconciled them and now they are close friends.”

Headmaster, Palwasha says: “when our students fight with each other outside or inside the school, we share the issue with their parents and if they fight again, we inform the student about the bad consequences of their fighting,  if they continue to  fight, the school administration might punish them and if they fight again, we say to them the school administration might exclude them from school.”