Responsibility for Preventing Illicit Drug Use by Children

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The responsible for preventing illicit drug use by children belongs to both parents and teachers not just only one.Most of children who use illicit drug have problem in their life , they may have poor family background, live in bad environment or even have been sent to the school that not provided them a proper education . To have good life standard children need primary socialization and also secondary socialization which is use to support their primary socialization .First when children were born they will be taught by their parents about the basic things in their life such as culture ,language , role, etc. These are called primary socialization . Most of children will follow their parents' foot step so parents are also children's role model, if their parents perform as a good role model they will form a good behavior but if their parents are bad role model they will see that those bad behavior are usual because they familiar with it, e.g if parent smoke or take illicit drug their children will mock those behavior . Next, when children grow up the responsibility of socialization will pass to teachers. Teachers should provide a good source of knowledge about illicit drug to student and also tell the student how to avoid it. However, teacher should not streaming children by label them in the different class depending on their grade or behavior because when low grade student stay together they will form their own peer group which's can be anti school peer group. According to the sociologist, teachers will not concentrate on low grade student class but teachers will have more concentration on student in top class because top class student provide more satisfaction so those low grade student will getting worse. If anti school peer group have been formed student within the group may lead their peer to illicit drug or others bad behavior. In school, teachers should form

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