It was on Thursday mid morning at around 10.25am.
This was immediately after a short break and learners were expected to attend
science lesson. Due to the harshness of their class teacher who was also their
science teacher twenty pupils did not attend science lesson and therefore only
twenty three learners were in the classroom ready to be taught. The other
twenty hid behind the classroom and others in the latrine.
This was the day I was expecting to be assessed for the
second time because we had already communicated by the assessor that morning
and even gave her direction to my school. I was expecting her to be in the classroom
for assessment in the same class. When the teacher realized that some of the
learners were not in the classroom she decided to report the matter to the deputy
headteacher who also reported the same matter to the headteacher. The headteacher
did not take his time to know what could be the root cause of the misconduct
instead ordered boys from standard seven and eight to go and look for the
standard three pupils who hid within the school compound. They were assumed to
be within the school compound because the school is fenced and has lockable
gate and a gate keeper, later on the learners were found in the latrines except
two girls who were missing for the whole day.
On Friday very early in the morning the parents of
the two girls came in tears (sic) asking for their beloved daughters, None of the
teachers could explain the where-about of the girls. The Headteacher asked the
teachers on duty to assemble learners in the assembly ground so that he could make an
announcement concerning the two girls. During the announcement one of the boys
raised up his hand and informed the headteacher that the previous evening he
saw the two girls in one of the herdmen house and he expected that they slept
there.
In addition the boy declared (sic) to the Headteacher
infront of the two parents that the herdman had been luring school girls using
money and therefore he had a chain of girl friends from our school. Above all,
the herdman had been sickly and some weeks ago he was diagnosed H.I.V.
positive. When the two parents heard that, one of them fainted and the other
jumped on the headteacher in front of his office (sic). The situation was unbearable
teachers tried to bring calm but it was in vain. The parent who fainted later recovered and went with the other parent and the deputy headteacher and
two other teachers to where the girls were. Then girls were found still
sleeping. To them it was not a big deal; one of the them declared to the deputy
headteacher that even her parents knew she was befriending the guy (herdman).
And many are the occasions she has ever taken shopping to the mother from the
guy.
The long story ended in the police station
whereby the herdsman was jailed because of child abuse. The girls were later transferred to another school.P.S.
(1) This is unedited version of the incident.
(2) Give reflective comments on this incident. Reflect on so what... and now what situation of the incident in respect to the teaching/learning process.
