When Will Some Teachers Stop Intimidating Students?
Teaching is a noble profession and every teacher has the
responsibility of dishing out knowledge is a holistic manner so that Cameroon can
boost of scholars worthy in both character and in learning.
Despite better efforts by education authorities to put
order and sanity in the education milieu, it is still unarguably evident that
there still exist vices ranging from vehement absenteeism by teachers,
corruption, and sexually transmitted marks syndrome amongst others. These
practices are probably exercised by persons who have misfired in their career
and have found themselves in the teaching profession of honour and dignity as a
last resort.
This is in the likes of this highly praised English
language teacher of a school fondly called “jungle” in Kosala- Kumba, who for
the past four years has been sexually intimidating this rather unquestionably
innocent female student, Hostensia (other names withheld).
Hostensia, 17, revealed that, this unexpected and forceful
relationship with her teacher has its genesis from the 2006/2007 academic year
when she was still in Form Three. The teacher (names withheld) had given every
student the impression that poor Hostensia was his daughter and their intimacy
was clear proof of the expression of fatherly love. Hostensia, in her euphoric
comportment had little knowledge that her English teacher which she held in
high esteem, in his late 30s, had a hidden agenda.
She further disclosed that Mr. Teacher, married and father
of two had been giving her money during break and equally bought her a Graded
English textbook. As if not enough, he paid for her second term 2009 holiday
classes even without her consent.
When little Hostensia got to Form five in 2009 after
attaining the state of maturity with her “coca-cola bottle” shaped buttocks and
attractive breast, the English teacher could no longer bear his enormous and
exceedingly huge insatiable desire for girls worth his biological daughter’s
age.
After several vain attempts to let Hostensia succumb to his
advances, he unjustifiably suspended Hostensia from his classes on grounds of
insolence. Helpless Hostensia in the midst of hectic preparations ahead of her
2009 GCE Ordinary Level exams could not report the matter to school authorities
because such an action would have cause her instantaneous dismissal, for the
teacher in question is an influential member of the school disciplinary
council. Hostensia was brilliant enough to pass the GCE but failed in English
Language.
Hostensia’s success in evading was temporal, for the
teacher did not intend to commune in the agony of his failure forever. His
determination to carry out a perverse deed was still enshrined in absolute perpetuity.
Vulnerable Hostensia had only dodged the “wahala” for a
while but not her pursuer. When she came into Lower Sixth in the same school,
it was still the wanton teacher who was to teach English in Literature.
Frustrated and under serious intimidation, she finally gave in to Mr. Teacher’s
proposal in a rendezvous at the teacher’s Mbonge Road domicile in Kumba.
Cleverly carried out investigations by The DETECTIVE confirm
that Mr. Teacher almost raped Hostensia in one longtime hotel around Mbonge
Road Junction when he found out that she was on menstruation. She was fortunate
enough that day.
This is just one case among the so many ugly and painful
experiences where unscrupulous teachers do impious acts unperturbed. Only God
knows how many students have fallen prey to him and his cohorts in crime! While
school administrators put in colossal efforts to maintain a morally acceptable
teacher-student relationship, the “bad guys” spend precious duty time doing the
contrary. Teachers with uncontrollable sexual urge, leave uncorrupt, decent and
pure little girls alone!
By AMINDEH BLAISE ATABONG
