Gayaza suspends pupils over
immorality
Publish Date: Apr 20, 2013
By Vicky Wandawa and John Semakula
Gayaza Junior School last week dismissed six Primary Three pupils, all aged about eight years for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with fellow students.
Margaret Kibuuka, the headmistress, said it was the third time the school was dismissing students over the same issue.
“We discovered the vice three years ago and four students in Primary Five were dismissed,” the head of the all-girls school said.
Another source told Saturday Vision that the school in March expelled two other P.2 pupils over the vice.
The expulsion has sent parents up in arms against the school’s administrators, with some threatening legal action.
“This is total nonsense, a sign that the school is failing to mentor the children. How do you expel a P.3 pupil over such allegations? These are babies,” the father of one of the victims said.
He also complained that if the children were involved in any immoral behavour, they were learning it from their colleagues at the school.
“My daughter joined the school in P.1. She spends most of her time at the school and now after spoiling her, she is expelled,” he said.
Another parent said the way in which the school summoned them to collect their children after they were expelled, left them traumatised.
The parent said she had just walked into her office when someone called and told her to rush to the school because ‘my daughter had a very big problem’.
“I asked the caller to tell me what the problem was, but she refused to elaborate. I thought she was either very sick or dead and I drove straight to the school, only to be told she had been expelled over bad manners,” she said.
A P.3 pupil at Gayaza Junior pays sh650,000 in fees per term. Kibuuka noted that although some of the parents were angry with the school, citing innocence of the children, one of the culprits started the vice days after being enrolled into Primary One.
“After only about two days in the school, she was pulling other pupils towards her in the bathroom, which meant she was already spoilt,” Kibuuka said.
Kibuuka added that the girl was warned, but continued with the vice up to Primary Three, when she was dismissed after discovering that she was bribing her colleagues with biscuits so as not to be reported to the administration.
“The parents complained that the children were too young to understand what was going on. But innocent children would not think of bribing. Also, they do it in hiding,” said Kibuuka.
She said they could not be blamed for having values and dismissing wrong doers, including those who had learned the habits from fellow students. “Even those who learnt from their contemporaries had to be dismissed because they did not report, despite our advice.”
The headmistress noted that the school took action after gathering evidence from other pupils and that the culprits had amitted to wrongdoing. “We advised their parents to take them for counselling before enrolling them into other schools.
At a meeting last year, parents consented that those found engaging in the vice be dismissed.
Kibuuka said she sympathises with the affected parents: “You may not believe it the first time you learn this about your daughter. However, there was one parent they should all emulate. Instead of getting angry with the authorities, he thanked the teachers for finding it out early and said it was not too late.”
Kibuuka partly blames the parents, whom she says hardly have time for their children.
“They leave home early and return late in the evening. They fail to supervise older people in the house whom the children could learn such vices from.” She says children are left to watch whatever they want on TV, including inappropriate programmes.
A former pupil of the school and now a responsible mother, said the school management could have mistaken the Kiganda cultural norm of ‘pulling’ and considered it immoral.
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“We discovered the vice three years ago and four students in Primary Five were dismissed,” Margaret Kibuuka, the headmistress of the all-girls school said.the school in March expelled two other P.2 pupils over the vice.
The expulsion has sent parents up in arms against the school’s administrators, with some threatening legal action.
one parent complained that if the children were involved in any immoral behavour, they were learning it from their colleagues at the school.
Another parent said the way in which the school summoned them to collect their children after they were expelled, left them traumatised.
The parent told the Newvison she had just walked into her office when someone called and told her to rush to the school because ‘my daughter had a very big problem’.
Kibuuka noted that although some of the parents were angry with the school, citing innocence of the children, one of the culprits started the vice days after being enrolled into Primary One.“After only about two days in the school, she was pulling other pupils towards her in the bathroom, which meant she was already spoilt,” Kibuuka said.
According to the Head mistress the girl was warned, but continued with the vice up to Primary Three, when she was dismissed after discovering that she was bribing her colleagues with biscuits so as not to be reported to the administration.
“The parents complained that the children were too young to understand what was going on. But innocent children would not think of bribing. Also, they do it in hiding,” said Kibuuka.
She said they could not be blamed for having values and dismissing wrong doers, including those who had learned the habits from fellow students. “Even those who learnt from their contemporaries had to be dismissed because they did not report, despite our advice.”
The headmistress noted that the school took action after gathering evidence from other pupils and that the culprits had admitted to wrongdoing. “We advised their parents to take them for counselling before enrolling them into other schools.
At a meeting last year, parents consented that those found engaging in the vice be dismissed
A P.3 pupil at Gayaza Junior pays sh650,000 in fees per term.
