We have a collective responsibility to raise, educate and grow our children as a united front. Going it alone as experience has shown, is an exercise in futility. What is not in dispute is that our children are a precious gift from God, coming to join this trouble prone-world as clean, pure and unblemished ‘lambs.’ They are the custodians of our common future and heritage.
Their preservation, however, in this deadly, callous and dog-eat-dog world, poses a serious challenge. This is due to the fact that people tend to see the world through narrow, parochial and selfish lens, choosing to look after their own and caring less or nothing about the welfare of the child of a next door neighbour. Today there is an evil empire that gaining currency. Among other things the evil empire is peddling drugs in our communities. As the name suggests, the evil empire is so ruthless in that its prime target is our pure and innocent children in school uniforms. It is an empire purely motivated in the main by profit maximisation. Drug abuse is assuming centre stage, achieving the undesirable effect of veering our children off course. Schools are trying, with limited success, all they can do to insulate the learning community from the evil empire. Desperately schools need allies to keep drugs out of schools.
