The secretly emerging culture of Lesbian Gays Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) among teenage students in secondary schools is causing serious indiscipline and a headache that is affected learning institutions.
The chairman of Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA), Willie Mwangi Kuria disclosed that the issue of LGBTQ is a big challenge to handle in educational institutions.
Kuria says students involved in the practice operate in high secrecy making it very hard for the management of schools to identify and deal with culprits.
He explained the matter only comes to the attention of school administration, when students being recruited decline and raise the alarm exposing the practitioners.
He was speaking during a meeting of Murang’a Secondary School Principals held at Mumbi girls school called to discuss strategies to confront the threat.
Kuria said that gathering of tangible evidence on the suspects is tricky in most cases due to the secretive manner the vice is conducted.
Students, he added, often fail to provide evidence of their colleagues involved in the practice.
Kuria who is the principal of Murang’a High Schools called on parents to work closely with school administrations to address the growing immorality among the youth.
The principal challenged parents to instill positive culture, morality values and human dignity in their children, when they are young to empower them with capacity to cope with the issue as they grow to adulthood.
He expounded that due to the emerging lifestyle, young children are exposed to negative values through the internet and digital platforms which influence their decision making to embrace the vice.
The teacher pointed that the young minds are influenced and recruited on internet platforms to join the practice and are lured by false promises of better lifestyle.
Kuria expressed concern that the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing the rights of association of LGBTQ practitioners has opened doors for listing of new members.
He observed that religious, cultural institutions and parents should devise new strategies to teach and instill character formation values; which would empower the young people to resist being wooed to the movement.
Kage Njoroge
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