Married!

This student always sleep in class. He was in form five.

He will be sleeping from early morning until the time for school is about to be over.

We always discussed about him in our staff meetings.

“Why did he always sleep in class?”

“Maybe he’s working till late night, helping his parents.”

“Maybe he studies till the wee hours of the morning.”

As new and young teachers, we were full of energy and we wanted to do our best to help the student.

Two of us went to his house to enquire and inform his parents about his behavior in school.

When we told the father about his sleeping pattern, his father had this to say,
“Teacher, six months ago he was caught with a girl in my house making out. That day we came home early from our food stall because the food was sold out.”

“We had to marry them off because she was then pregnant, and now they had a child that cried all night long.”

“Both are students, but I can’t help them by taking care of their baby because we have to go to the market, cook the food and sell it. They asked for it so they have to face the consequences of their deeds.”

After finishing school, I met them again at an outlet selling jeans. The boy was a cashier and the girl a salesgirl. I asked about their children. They have two kids now and both are still living with their food stall operator parents making ends meet.

CIKGUTANYA: Boys and girls, please be careful life is not that easy.