Football brings joy, excitement and solidarity, but football love is not expressed by car horns, exhaust pipes, dangerous races or affecting the community.
Thu Dau Mot Ward Police handling a group of teenagers "going storming" causing noise after the football match on the evening of August 22nd is a commendable approach. This is a very practical educational lesson, causing disruption to the community, you must know how to fix it.
After a football match, emotions can erupt, but emotions are not an exemption for violations.
Driving and shouting, honking horns causing noise, if it affects public order and traffic safety, must be rectified.
Thu Dau Mot Ward Police see behind the violations are young people who need education.
A penalty record may make violators afraid of being fined, but a day of directly picking up each trash bag on the road they just caused noise helps them understand something deeper, the streets are a common space, not everyone can do whatever they want.
Picking up trash with their own hands, children will realize that the clean streets they enjoy are the result of many people. An unconscious action can cost others more effort to overcome.
That is experiential education, sometimes much more effective than scolding.
This handling also sends an important message to parents, educating children cannot just wait for schools or the police.
Family must teach children that freedom always goes hand in hand with responsibility.
Schools also need to consider such cases as educational situations. Students must learn about cheering culture, traffic participation awareness, and responsibility to public space.
Of course, in cases of racing, swerving, zigzagging, causing trouble or violations with sufficient grounds for handling according to the law, strict sanctions must still be applied.
Humanitarian education is not synonymous with being lenient.
The good thing about the way of doing things in Thu Dau Mot is being strict with violations and humane with young people. Through this, students understand where they are wrong to correct. That experience can help them realize their civic responsibility to grow up.
