Discipline process

MR A: Raica ya! as he pointed at the school bus passing the shop, “those primary school children standing inside, yelling, jumping up and down and some sitting on the window. “At the same time, that bus is speeding down the road.

“The sad thing is Bro, is that it is probably like that every day after school, throughout our country. “It’s just accidents waiting to happen and au sa madua saraga vakalevu everytime I see it,” he lamented.

Mr B: “But for why they do that tavale when the bus full speed?”

Mr C: “Who is to blame

bhaiya? Is it the children? The teachers? Their parents? Or is it the LTA, the bus driver, the police, or is it the Ministry of Education? “Who, who, who?” he asked waving his hand.

Mr B: “Who, who ga na

owl,” he replied quietly.

“Io, who we blame? But first, we have to kana kuita

those kids.”

Mr A: “I really think we are all to blame. We all have our different responsibilities in this matter, but we don’t seem to be doing it.

“We mada ga as parents and grandparents, have the vital responsibility of educating our children in the dos and the don’ts and then to discipline them in the appropriate way, when they do the wrong thing. The teachers then provide support and fine-tune that education and discipline process. The government machinery then lays down the necessary policies and the laws to cement it all down and the various arms, including the bus companies and LTA, do the regular policing and monitoring of those laws and guidelines.”

Mr C: “So bhaiya, that all sounds nice and clear, but something must be wrong somewhere, because it is still happening, I think it is us the parents who are not educating and disciplining these kids properly.”

As his friends shook their heads in agreement and headed for the door he asked: “OK, what about the discipline in paying the dinau here?”

Mr B: “Oso, qori qei muri bhaiya, we have to discipline the children in the bus first.”

Mr C: “You discipline yourself first!” he said as they walked on to the road. EDWARD BLAKELOCK Admiral Circle,

Pacific Harbour

of Health and government pharmacist.

SOPD patients to Nadi Hospital need no longer worry about not being able to get blood samples tested, for now.

Blood bottles are available, again, I am reliably informed.

I hope my

PSA tests can finally be done after waiting six long months for results. Or do

I stand corrected?

Thank you to all responsible for alleviating our concerns.

RONNIE CHANG Martintar, Nadi