A primary school in
Bulawayo has adopted a stop-and-search policy after Grade Two pupils were found
having group sex using condoms during break time.
The pupils
would forgo playing games like most kids their age. Instead they opted to poke
each other much to the jealousy of one girl who cried like candy had been
snatched from her.
The snubbed
girl wept until a groundsman thought someone had taken away something from her.
As a concerned adult, he asked the Grade 2 child what was wrong. That is when
she told him innocently that no one wanted to poke her.
A teacher at
the school narrated the story to B-Metro.
“What happened
is that the groundsman heard one of the Grade 2 pupils sobbing bitterly at the
classroom corner and got concerned. When he asked her what had happened, the
girl while pointing at some pupils who were having sex said:
‘Uhlala esenza
lo, lalowana, lalowaya mina engangenzi’ (meaning he is always doing others
while leaving me out.) When the shocked groundsman asked the pupils what they
were doing they quickly dressed up and ran back to their classrooms,” said the
teacher.
The groundsman popularly known as
“Madala” reported the matter to the headmistress.
Having heard
such, the headmistress led a group of teachers to the children. They searched
the children’s satchels and got the shock of their lives.
A collection
of pornographic discs and condoms were found. The teacher said the children’s
collection was arguably bigger than that of some adults that he knows.
Since then it
has become a school policy to search pupils.
Working
undercover, B-Metro went to the school and met the deputy headmistress. This
reporter’s storyline was that her daughter told her they were being searched at
school.
Mrs Nyathi,
the deputy heard said: “Your children are very naughty. We began searching them
because they bring condoms and pornographic material to school.”
However,
calling her later as B-Metro she professed ignorance on the issue.
“We are not
aware of such an issue and we would like parents to inform us if they discover
anything of that nature,” she said.
Meanwhile, teachers
at Valukhalo Secondary School in Mangwe District are conducting lessons at a
community hall that doubles up as a condom distribution centre.
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