“WE can do something as teachers, but the home itself is decayed. Children dress in any way they like, Gift Sichinga told a parliamentary select committee in National Guidance and Religious Affairs. Sichinga, the Livingstone Education Standards Officer in charge of general inspections, was speaking during a hearing held Wednesday at the Livingstone City Council chambers. He lamented the growing breakdown of parental guidance, telling committee members that many children were left to learn behaviours from society, often the wrong ones, because of a vacuum at home. “I will give you an illustration of how a child came to school not well dressed and when we called the mother to a meeting she came with a size one mini-dress and...