A series of slashing incidents happened in this few weeks. To my surprise, it is all did by the teens. Singapore is such a developed country and yet the teens acted like not educated. A slashing case happened at Downtown East which caused the victim dead. The teens involved aged between 19 to 22 years old including the victims.

The society sensed the seriousness of the teens slashing issue. School should plays their roles in avoiding these kind of incident to happen again. From the newspapers, recently at least 8 secondary schools have engaged counsellors to protect their students from gang activities following recent gang fights involving teenagers.

Youth counselling experts say what teens need is actually a boostto their self confidence to keep them away from gangs. From the view of a expert,14 to 15 year old students are ideal targets for gang recruitment. This is because at this age, they have a high level of curiosity and want to try new things. While these teens are able to tell the difference between good and bad, what they lack is self-control.

Some schools are sending such problem students for a weekly two hour counselling programme over a three month period to give them the confidence to make better choices.The students have no courage to say no, simply because they are lack of confidence.Teens are often just looking for a sense of belonging, love and acceptance.

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