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The Western Area Rural Council chairman, Kasho Holland Cole has an interview said the council is looking forward to passing a law that forbids the use of red and green as house colors in schools sport activities.
The good old days of enjoying sporting activities in Sierra Leone has taken another direction. Back then, colors are nothing but colors with no affiliations to them. The recent trend to these house colors have ignited law makers, council heads, school stakeholders to look into this as there has been a growing tension during sports meets as a result of red and green colors which are political colors in Sierra Leone.
Schools are known to be institutions for educating children, it could be any institution at which instruction is given in a particular discipline. Students are taught societal ethos and morals. These institutions should affiliate themselves in anyway with politics as they are considered as independent institutions.
Looking at the recent reports from among schools organizing annual sport meets, it has come to the notice of stakeholders that, the colors red and green are posing threat to the peace loving sport meets we used to enjoy.
According to One Parent, Deborah Mewah, she expressed how it happened in her child’s school in Magburaka. According to her, there was tension between red and green houses and what made it worse was, they had cultural display and during the ballot, green house took the mende tribe so after the sport there was an emergency meeting to change the house colours. “… but come to think of it, what are we teaching these children when in primary schools they taught us that we have four primary colours including red and green” she concluded.
But what baffles me is that, why are schools these days teaching pupils right at primary school about politics and affiliating house colours to politics when there are lots to cover in the school curriculum. Schools are schools and their essence is for educating children and a political training grounds for pupils.
