Incident 1: Class Two Incident

On the morning of 14th March 2015, i woke up early than usual since i was the teacher on duty and i was also expecting external supervisor from the university. I was able to arrive at school at about 7:00 a.m. Pupils began tickling in one by one and soon learning started.

At about 10:00 a.m our school chairman came to school to inform us that the county governor would be visiting our school in the afternoon. We hurriedly held a brief staff-meeting and shared duties amongst ourselves. I was charged with responsibility of ensuring that the environment (sic) becomes clean and tidy. i asked pupils to collect litter and some to sweep their classrooms.

It all begun when it started raining in the afternoon. It was a heavy downpour and word came around that the governor was not going to make it. Kamau* (not his real name), one of our trusted class three prefect came running to the office and reported that something weird was happening in class two. Being the teacher on duty  i hurried to investigate. As i neared their class i could hear the whole class singing loudly ....'kila mtu na demu wake.. '(everybody hold your girl). I could clearly recognized the voice of the most notorious boy nicknamed 'Jangili' (Thug) leading the singing. When i entered the class, i was shocked to find some of the kids were half naked.

We were able to guide and counsel the kids who led others into this ugly incident. Jangili and his close associates (sic) confessed  that they have been doing thus on their way home, the reason being that, they have been seeing their parents doing 'jig jig' at night. The kids vowed not to repeat it again.

It came to our understanding that class two pupils had not being doing their assignments and homework since their class teacher has been reluctant to mark the classwork. We also learnt that Jangili and his close associates (sic) had joined a group (sic) that had been abusing drugs.

I learnt that each child has a unique characteristics/traits and should be handled differently. Learners have individual differences.
NOTE:
The name of the university, school, author, teacher, pupil, governor and county has been omitted to protect privacy.