Vituko Mitaani

Gayaza Junior School last week dismissed six Primary Three pupils, all aged eight years for allegedly engaging in sexual acts with fellow students. 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,” 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.