BAD NEWS travels fast. It's all overseas - how two students of a Corporate Area high school, still clad in their uniforms, making it easy to identify the institution they attend, were photographed in FLAGRANTE DELICTO, or to put it out there for all to understand - engaged in sexual activity on the steps of a building on their school compound. A fellow student, it is said, captured their performance with the aid of a cellphone camera.

This homespun porn production was then placed on the Internet where many a reputation has gone to die. Not long after that, the film was downloaded and began circulating not only in JA, but areas of the US which Fi Wi People inhabit, bringing further distress to our relatives who are now fully convinced that the devil himself has taken over here.
People deal with shock in different ways. One gentleman from Up So told me, on air, that he was so appalled that he made several copies of the film and sent it to friends who were also horrified. The irony of what he did quite escaped him. His sense of outrage is quite understandable. What is not so easy to understand is why he thought that giving it further circulation was the way to deal with the problem.

Outrage is highly necessary, not just for this particular pornographic episode, but for all the other rampant acts of sexual insanity being reported as commonplace among some of our students. It is important once again to make the point that not ALL of our young people have given up on decency and propriety. The words might not even be known to all, but give thanks that it is only a minority of our young who have taken leave of their senses. There is more than enough evidence that many more students are doing the right thing.

Our concern has to be about the little wretches who engage in sex on the buses and celebrate No-Panty Day. We talk and talk as if we don't know where they get the ideas from. Well, in case you don't know, porn proliferates on Cable, and Cable is everywhere. That's what kids watch. Explicit literature abounds. It's what kids read. It is legitimised by striptease fashions on the street. Young men love it. Young women see nothing wrong with it. Ugliness thrives.

So far, this strange behaviour of some of our young is being lamented mainly in the media. Hardly, if ever, do we hear parents indicating that they're concerned enough to lead the charge, or at least join in efforts to turn things around. Instead, we have the aberration of parents going to school to harass teachers.

The Ministry of Education could just as well be renamed the Ministry of Morality, as almost every day it struggles to develop some new formula to deal with the epidemic of juvenile disorder. Only this week the minister was on the offensive again - hunting down expletives in books assigned for courses. Expletives is one thing. Sex in the schoolyard - and filmed at that - is another.

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