For quite some weeks now, the nation's tabloids have been awash with stories about students openly revolting against their teachers.

Teachers have been aggressed, with many taking to their heels following incidents with their students. Many have even carried their impunity to extremes by drinking alcoholic beverages in full view of those supposed to take care of discipline. There have been countless cases of students caught in school precincts with drugs and many even confess to taking them regularly.

Just last week a school in Dimako remained close for several days supposedly at the instance of a group of students practicing sorcery and who mystically kept school staff off campus. The school milieu has never really been a crime-free zone; but happenings of these past weeks go beyond the competent of those supposed to ensure discipline.

One can rightly say signal bells calling for some immediate and drastic actions beyond the scope of school disciplinarians have begun ringing. Ordinarily, the police are supposed to keep off school campuses because crimes committed therein are supposed to be considered essentially as acts of delinquency.

This week, the police have decided to go beyond their legal constituency to peer into this new crime-infested sector. It is a most salutary act which will go a long way to re-instill order in the school milieu and prevent crime from taking such a strong root and which, on a daily basis, is exposing many innocent school children to crime and even getting many recruited, almost inadvertently.

Their interest is informed by the necessity of nipping bad habits in the bud else the school milieu develops into a free-for-all jungle where it will become difficult much later to have things under control. A stitch in time, it is said, saves nine. So the police must take deserved encomiums for their proactive posture in reversing this dangerous trend.