Cold facts behind big match fever

It is school big match time in Sri Lanka. Practically in each province we can see how students, teachers and principals work hard to continue the big match tradition. School is the place where one is taught discipline and values through which a well-rounded citizen is produced to the society.

Students, however, behave as though they want to show their rival school who they are. Teenagers are usually boisterous but when things get out of their control, naturally they pose a threat to society. In fact their parents and civil society have the tendency to blame the school and the principal. But school authorities are not solely responsible. Students also go to tuition classes, parties and many other places. Interaction among students sometimes develops into personal grudges, leading to fights among them.

When students organise parades ahead of their big matches, creating traffic jams and causing inconvenience to the general public, they become a menace to the road users and

APPRECIATIONS

thus bring disrepute to their schools.

Some may say they are young and society should tolerate their pranks. But students must be supervised and guided properly when they go out of their schools in uniform.

Fr. S. Randil Fernando OMI

Maradana