Ms Macharia said teachers were responsible for only two percent of pregnancies among learners, adding that local communities were more notorious for preying on schoolgirls. Ms Macharia said out of the dismissed 1,228, some 279 teachers had applied for a review of their cases without success. Students are, for example, barred from going into teachers’ living quarters while dormitories are out of bounds to teachers of the opposite sex. PROSECUTEShe warned against giving learners contraceptives, saying, it would only encourage teenage sex. Religious leaders who attended the forum asked the ministry to vet the curriculum on sex education, saying any teaching that seeks to promote use of contraceptives to students is unacceptable.

Source: Daily Nation March 14, 2019 07:53 UTC