Being a young female educator is not an easy task. You must endure not only lecherous male teachers who want to hit on you, but also bad students who are rife with testosterone and attempt to hit on you.
It has been rumored that teachers are told to reduce their movements in the classroom, for example, by teaching while standing in one location during the entire lesson, in order to avoid disrupting such boys. As soon as these teachers begin to write on the blackboard, these lads “undress” them and begin to imagine their own things. Some teachers are mischievous and brave enough to wink and whistle suggestively at such instructors.
Jacinta Mlai anticipated a simpler and less daring transition to the labor market after four years of arduous college for a Bachelor’s degree in Education. She had not envisioned a world in which her male students would lavish her with sexual compliments. She described the attention as “weird and quite unpleasant.”
HORMONES
Jacinta is just one of many young female teachers in the United States who have become the preoccupation of nymphomaniacal, hormone-fueled high school boys. Jacinta, speaking to Crazy Monday over the phone from Kakamega, where she works at a public school institution, decried her precarious position.
“I am working with young males who recently lost their voices and believe they are grown enough to handle a woman of maturity.” When I was assigned here, I had a premonition that something would occur. During my teaching practicum in Nakuru, I encountered adolescents as noisy as these. When I chatted to them, they would use provocative language, but it was not as lurid as what I am facing now.
She claims that agony, ecstasy, and depravity do not appear to be disappearing anytime soon. Jacinta had little choice but to involve the school’s principal, who did little more than let out a hyena’s laugh when confronted with Jacinta’s predicament.
Jacinta’s duck is nearly cooked despite her best efforts to dress appropriately and maintain a severe demeanor, as the lads have repeatedly professed their eternal, unyielding, uncompromising, and devastating love for her.
To get to the root of her unpleasant predicament, this author asks, “How far has it gotten so far?”
“Once, when teaching biology, one of them stepped up to pose a question, looked me in the eyes, and asked, ‘Mwalimu, will you teach the topic of reproduction using practicals? I believe it would be the most effective way to get through it, as it’s a difficult one?'”
She continues by stating that everyone, including herself, laughed. But it wasn’t all roses when another boy once performed a cockerel’s enticing stumbling dance around her: “It brought me to my emotional breaking time. I vowed to quit teaching and find other employment.”
Maryanne Wambua, a teacher in Nairobi, is, like Jacinta, sick of the stares and crude words of ‘affirmation’ she has gotten from her unscrupulous student admirers. “It’s sadistic when you think about it.
How can young males have the ability to tell me that my derriere is attractive? “I have never been as surprised as I am right now,” says the lady, who, despite having introduced her doctor fiancĂ© to everyone at her school, remains firmly under the scrutiny of nosy, hawk-eyed males in her class.
According to Maryanne, the problem is more worse in Nairobi, where there are more bold school-aged guys, than in the rest of the country. She acknowledges that she says descriptive adoration from males, but her heart quakes with humiliation when her students do it to her.
Maryanne states, “I have forced to assume that they are not on my heels.” “However, I can only do this for so long; everyone has a breaking point.” When I detect vision lines fixed to my chest or any other part I believe should be kept private, my blood boils; it’s as if he’s hell-bent on stripping me naked.”
SALACIOUS
The degree of abuse (if you can call it that) that young, provocative female teachers endure is not as superficial as it would appear. In time, many of them have dealt with it in the belief that they will outgrow it as they age. According to what Matilda Nyongesa and Reena Maftai state, this is accurate.
Miss Nyongesa says that while she works at a top private school in Nairobi, she has been subjected to subtle but persistent sexual connotations from male students.
She says, “I don’t really worry about all the unwanted attention from these boys since I know it won’t go any further than them staring at me. They are at the zenith of their sexual development during adolescence, and you must recognize that hormones rather than their brains rule them. It’s a lot of fuss about nothing: I would only be offended if I was personally offended or if their comments went beyond certain depths of human imagination.”
Reena, who is assigned to teach mathematics and chemistry to young men at one of Thika’s elite schools, maintains a positive attitude despite their sexual attempts. Her diminutive stature renders her powerless; even resolute words wouldn’t do much to deter the smitten youngsters.
However, her sculpted pear-shaped physique could be her “downfall.” “The lads are large; they resemble men on the whole, but their reasoning is terrible. “Their flirtation is not harmful to me, but I am afraid of what they might be capable of doing,” she admits.
At least according to Catherine Mbau, an adolescent boy’s brain is still in the development of developing into an adult. She has spent sufficient time as a psychologist researching adolescent behavior to discern their stream of thought.
“There is no age time that is more thrilling for adolescents than the years 14 to 18.” They are at the mercy of their raging hormones without even realizing it. At this time, sex is an especially intriguing topic that intrigues them more than anything else. This ardent disposition causes them to speak and act impolitely; they attempt to impress, stand out, make jokes, and make light of every circumstance, according to Mbau.
Many young males concur with the psychologist’s assessment. Wycliffe Siang’a, a successful marketer for a telecoms firm in Nairobi, can’t forget his days as an adolescent, when he tormented and lusted after a young woman on student teaching at his school. “This is a memory that will remain carved in our minds forever. If I may say so, she was marvelously and fearfully crafted. All of us lads fantasized about having her as a companion, and our imaginations ran wild.”
Incredibly, he acknowledges that he felt “something” for her, going so far as to hound her with revision queries, which were in essence a ruse to pull them closer together. In a surprising turn of events, he really attributes his KCSE success to her.
“I realize that seems strange, but when she went, I became so depressed and felt so motivated to earn good grades and travel to Nairobi to meet her. “By the time I registered for my first year of college, she had most likely graduated and moved on,” he says, feeling somewhat disheartened by the significant miss.
In order to piece together this scenario, it was difficult to identify students who were willing to discuss inappropriate behavior toward young, beautiful teachers. Despite not being part in the circus, Ngirachu, a Form Three student at one of the most prestigious schools in Nairobi, was eager to discuss his experiences with us.
CRAZY THOUGHTS
“I find this really embarrassing and inconceivable; I simply cannot seduce my teacher, even if she appears young enough. When they arrive for teaching practice, certain boys are ecstatic. Where they get the nerve to make approaches and drop hints is a mystery to me. However, one thing I can say is that these teachers are handsome and well-dressed. They understand how to apply makeup, he stated.
Does this excuse it?
“No,” Jacinta disagrees. “My education is to educate these boys. Not because they are maturing does it become acceptable. It is harassment, and it sometimes exceeds private bounds. Moreover, I do not wish to be held accountable for any student’s failure to pass an exam, nor am I a cougar.”
Mbau says that wayward boys can only be controlled via the use of restricting measures by adults. She argues that adolescent misbehavior is to be expected if sufficient hormones are present. “This boy can only be disciplined by a teacher or a parent. Regardless of his outward maturity, his mind is still immature, impetuous, and filled with wild thoughts.”
The psychologist adds that this does not imply that boys’ awful behavior should be tolerated. She says that it can be managed with firmness to prevent any escalation and limit its scope.
The bad news (for professional young damsels) is that naughty lads won’t stop being naughty; while you are making a point on the chalkboard and all of your students are attentive, they are most likely captivated by the sight of something else.