The Monitor
More
than 1,300 students of Aduku Secondary School, Apac District, have been
sent home following a violent strike which resulted into the
destruction of school property worth about Shs100 million.
School authorities said the last Saturday night strike was sparked off by a ban on wearing of mini-skirts and tight trousers.
Last week, the
school administration confiscated all mini-skirts and tight trousers, a
move which reportedly annoyed the students. Aduku SS is an
Anglican-founded mixed O and A-level boarding school.
Before the strike,
the students had also claimed that they were not comfortable with having
porridge for breakfast early in the morning at 6am, the time when they
should still be enjoying their sleep.
The headmaster, Mr
Patrick Okwir Angulo, said last term, they issued a circular to all
parents warning that mini-skirts and tight trousers would not be allowed
in school. This was after it was realised that girls cut their long
skirts and saw them into mini-skirts. Boys were also reducing the sise
of their normal trousers making them tight.
"During the opening
of this term, teachers were deployed at the school gate to check the
kind of uniforms students had come with," Mr Okwir told Daily Monitor in
a telephone interview on Sunday evening.
Mini-skirts and
tight trousers were confiscated and cut into pieces. But those that
could be resized were kept in the school store and will be given back to
the owners at the end of the term.
The headmaster said
that was a way of instilling discipline in the students and added that
the wearing of non uniforms at school has been banned.
The culprits
But a group of
about 10 students from Senior Three allegedly mobilised and spearheaded
the strike last Saturday. They reportedly pulled down a wall fence
measuring 307 metres, which they say limited their movement outside the
school.
"They also tried to
push down the wall fence from the girls' wing, but the girls never came
out to join them in the strike," Mr Okwir said.
He said the
students broke into the computer laboratory and destroyed all the
computers by pouring sewerage on them. The protesters also broke all the
window panes.
The district police
commander, Mr Alfonse Ojangole, and the district education officer, Mr
Billy Okunyu, visited the school on Sunday and talked to the students
before they were all sent home for 10 days.
This newspaper
understands that there will be a joint Parents Teachers' Association
(PTA) and Board of Governor meeting on Wednesday to agree on a way
forward.
The strike
A group of about 10
students from Senior Three allegedly mobilised and spearheaded the
strike on Saturday. They reportedly pulled down a wall fence measuring
307 metres, which they say limited their movement outside the school.
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