Free Quality Pregnancies
It looks as if morality in schools is being given a low key either because of a lack of monitoring or complicit heads of schools. It is a regulation for all schools that classes should not be held beyond the hours prescribed by the Ministry of Basic Education. This is because after those hours the teachers should close their schools and be no more responsible for the students until the next day.
Sadly though, these regulations are being flouted by certain private schools with impunity. An outstanding example is that of the Obama Secondary School at Waterloo that has been holding all-night classes from 7pm to 4am for more than one hundred students.
What is more bizarre is the fact that there is a Deputy Director of Education with an office in Waterloo pretending not to be aware of such travesty of regulations. He spends most of his working hours in Freetown and when in Waterloo quits the office long before closing hours.
Parents and guardians can best imagine what happens during a purported nine hours of study at night. Where do they sleep? Who knows how many girls will be present throughout the period? How can such a malpractice go on for a whole week without any action by the local education authorities? Is the only method of getting students to pass is to encamp them? Why should the prescribed school hours not be enough if the teachers to teach diligently instead of turning the school into a night school?
City Peep with astuteness can hazard guesses of what is likely to happen at the end of the camping.
1. How to be pregnant
2. How to acquire Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) including HIV
3. How to freely indulge in drug abuse and
4. How to spend the nights in the bedrooms of teachers.
This syndrome cannot be confined to Obama Secondary School. It is safe to say that it is obtaining in several other schools with the Education Ministry winking at it.
Tamba Sam’s Exhumation
The practice of exhumation is steeped in superstition and it is amazing that Christians and so called Christians can indulge in it. The late Tamba Sam a former top official of the SLPP who died during the Ebola epidemic was buried in Freetown in spite of protestations from members of the party. He did not die of Ebola but the then ruling APC with Paolo Conteh in charge of those affairs refused to allow it.
On reflection we can imagine why death can be politicized. Now Paolo is on the other end of the stick and he would be thinking that what goes round comes round. Why would people imagine that they themselves would not die one day? Even in biblical times people were superstitious as they asked to be gathered with their fathers. Were they thinking that resurrection depended on the place of burial? If so they must have been ultra-superstitious which is not suitable for Christianity.