Stop politicising students

By Anonymous, On e-mail
15 July 2004, 18:00 PM
All our political parties including the government and the opposition have political student wings to bolster their presence. Public university teachers are divided along political lines e.g. white panel, blue panel etc. Even the private sector reaps benefits from alliance with particular political parties. This trend of politicising every aspect of our life is slowly but surely eating out the backbone of our society. Corruption is now prevalent everywhere as a by-product of this politicisation.

It is just the average people who suffer, not the politicians or their children. They have the financial means to send their children abroad, far away from this chaos so that they can build a career of their own, while these same politicians allow the country to spiral down a dangerous path. When will this stop? If this continues, all brilliant students will leave the country, one way or the other, and the country will be left with leaders who have no merit, who cheat and lie and are inept in running the country. BD is the only country where students spend more time in politics than on their studies. It seems that student politics is a big business now and no one wants it to stop. BD is perhaps the only country that on a state level encourages students to take up arms. It is perhaps the only country that blatantly erodes the education system knowing perfectly well how detrimental it is to its own future. And it is perhaps the only country that does more harm to its people (except the regime of Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe) than good.