Thread by @deoluakinyemi

𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗥𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝘅, 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝗿𝗲! 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭 Every day, a new crisis trends. Some of us can’t keep up.
I feel it’s important I comment about this issue for a few reasons:
1.Why I took

my kids out of Chrisland,
2.Primary school children having sex which isn’t new, is now a school’s fault?
3.Who is responsible?

When people take to social media condemning schools and parents, it’s good to look inwards, and take lessons to prevent what can happen 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮!

Why did I take my children from Chrisland?

I took my kids out of Chrisland about 10yrs ago, as you can guess they are way past that level now. I saw a few signs, added them together and decided to remove them.

The truth however is that these challenges are not exclusively Chrisland’s, they are the problems of many schools. I am not throwing stones or shades at Chrisland exclusively, you can judge for yourself.

Three reasons:

1.Playing loud music at children’s events. There seems to be no censorship on what music to play and what not to play where kids are present. My wife went for the kiddies event and couldn’t contain her irritation.

She spoke up about it, and the head teacher replied that she should allow the children to have fun. A few parents also backed the head teacher up. That was strike 1!

If you go for your children’s prize giving day, or any other event , and they are singing - “This miliki for your front na for me, go down on me…”, and you are dancing and singing along, you and your children’s school are really working towards something.

2.One day went for open day to see my Children’s teachers and basically check up on my children. As I walked into the class and sat with the Teacher, we talked about a variety of things, but one thing struck me:

• The teacher congratulated me and told me for what I was doing to help my daughter understand maths better. This was clearly a compliment, but I felt a little offended. The reason being, the teacher knew that I was the reason she was improving in maths and not their teaching.

I wondered what I was paying so much for!!
My wife was armed with point 1, I was armed with point 2. When we closed the session of primary 3 and my son was about to move to primary 1.
3. We evaluated their fees, and the efforts that we were putting in to teach at home ourselves

and decided we were paying too much for the service and values that was being offered. We reasoned that if we knew we were not paying much, we would pay more attention to our kids. So, we decided to move them to a very disciplined catholic primary school not far from the house.

It was one of the best decisions we made, my daughter had 3 years to go, and my son had 6 years to go. It prepared them well.

Primary school children and sex -

Whether it’s naivety or hypocrisy.
I don’t know why we’re suddenly discovering sex happens with very underaged kids!

Some children become conscious and active from as low as primary 1.

I attended University of Ilorin Primary school over 30 years ago. I went to school every morning in a bus provided by Federal Government College Ilorin, as there was where my parents worked.

Going to school every morning was always a 1hr 45 mins journey from Ogidi to the University. We drop off about 5 other schools before getting to University’s permanent site where my school was.

These near two hours every morning was spent, playing, fighting and jisting.

Some of the jist I can’t seem to ever forget, with the names of the students involved were stories of primary school students having sex with each other. One of the boys was in the bus with us, and he would boast of his many escapades.

This was a time before social media, but the descriptions were graphic and our imaginations more potent than mobile phones. I can still remember the names and surnames.

People become sexually active at different ages, and for lack of parental attention.

All it takes is for one exposed person to freely interact with unexposed people, and the virus spreads. For some is the curious mind, for others it’s stumbling on uncles and aunties either doing something or watching something. For some it’s abuse.

I recall in primary 2 having a spinster teacher we’ll call Miss AJ, to protect her privacy. Every time Mr. AK came to visit her in class, they would go to an enclosed room at the back. And the primary 2, boys would eaves drop to see if anything was going on.

30 years ago, children had access to ‘lolly and Dauda the sexy guy’. Today it’s worse! TikTok and Twitter regularly feature phonographic content. Their quantity and quality of bad eggs is on the increase, if yours miss it, it’s because as a parent you are intentional and involved

Please calling what transpired between those children “rape” is attempting to call a dog a bad name in other to kill it. Chrisland has faults similar to many other schools. Let’s apportion the blame fairly.

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