Setting school buildings a blaze has become a morbid teen sport.
Troublesome teenagers seem to sprout in every nook and cranny.
Desperate teachers keen to put an end to the madness have resolved to expel students from school and demanded parents pay between Sh9,800 and Sh13, 500 before re-admission.
However a parent from Kakamega School has sued saying this is harsh.
Parents ought to understand the effect of the school fires and the damage it causes to their kids' life and to students who did not participate in the disruptive mess.
Apart from the destruction of school property, the burning costs students, teachers and parents' time in rebuilding.
Second, parents ought to know the duty of teaching a kid good manners is squarely theirs. If a parent has failed to teach his or her kid why it is important not to burn school or engage in unruly behaviours, then it is only fair for such a parent to bear the cost of their failure.
For this reason the decision by schools to slap parents with a hefty penalty is justified because it is only through such painful way that parents and students understand the magnitude of problem caused by arson.
This will act as a deterrence to those who might want to engage in the vice in future.
It is also time parents took serious the words of the bible in the book of Proverbs, which says train a child in a way s/he should go and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.
