In many countries schools have severe problems with student behaviour. what do you think are the causes of this? what solutions can you suggest?

In current society, schools are regarded as a place to guide children and protect them. At the same time, children in schools are often thought to be docile. However, they do not behave themselves as well as we predict. Personally speaking, factors contribute to this phenomenon.

Firstly, education system is to blame. To be specific, exam oriented learning gives priority to the classes related to tests, but ignores comprehensive development of a student. In addition, teachers only concentrate on the academic performance or the learning outcome no matter what methods students adopt to compete with others. To deal with this problem, extra-curriculum should be introduced. For example, sport is recommended in improving students' team work. Supposing students are allowed more opportunities to cooperate with their classmates, they would be more active and modest.

Secondly, children nowadays are obsessed with materialistic values. In their eyes, the academic marks are not as important as whether their clothes are fashionable enough. When they see a voguish cell phone in the advertisement, they think they have to follow the suit. Otherwise, they would be mocked and even excluded by their classmates. Efforts should be made by both parents and schools to tackle this tendency. It is not wise to encourage and reward children according to their marks in final exams. Besides, wearing uniform and eliminating anything irrelevant to learning in campus are also acceptable strategies.

To sum up, there are definitely many problems existing in schooling children and they are too young to behave themselves. Fortunately, these problems can be addressed through attempts from family and teachers.