It has been asserted that indiscipline has an effect on academic performance of learners which include, learners' inability to concentrate in class, loss of materials taught due to absenteeism and inability to learn.Communities with indisciplined behaviour suffer a lot of crises, which include poor attitude to work, low productivity, nonchalant attitude towards national development, and national consciousness.Indiscipline has been seen as the direct opposite of discipline which is the cultivation of bad habit or immoral behaviour that reflects and becomes a threat or harm to the peers, parents, teachers and other educational administrators which can lead to unrest or chaos.
This has led to nepotism, hooliganism, absenteeism, truancy, unwanted destruction of properties, cheating and examination mal-practice in the society. Indiscipline can be said to be the absence of discipline.Indiscipline is defined as a lack of discipline. Some of the effects of indiscipline among the youth include lack of respect for teachers, parents and other senior figures.