Girl on Hunger Strike Griefs Missing Kenya High, Blames Teacher
A family in Kisii is attempting to console their daughter and bring her to the dinner table after a teacher allegedly tampered with the secondary school selection list, depriving her a spot at Kenya High School — her top choice.
PQ, age 14, from Kitutu Chache South, achieved 409 marks and greatly anticipated attending his dream school.
The mark placed her among the top candidates in the region in the category for women.
During the selection process, she chose Kenya High School, and when she received her amazing score, she was ecstatic to learn that she had been accepted.
Her parents, Rebecca and Samuel, claim that a teacher at her school admitted to changing PQ’s Form One school selection list preference from Kenya High to another school.
“It is a decision that has left my daughter in a foul mood since the results came out, she barely eats and sometimes wakes up at night and bolts out to nowhere,” the mother said.
Today, the candidate hardly ever joins them for dinner.
They claim that she frequently locks herself away to compose lengthy essays criticizing the teacher for purportedly preventing her from pursuing her desired career path.
Two of her surviving siblings who made it to lliance are now enrolled in a medical program.
The parents said that she had been selected to Pangani Girls High School, her second-choice school, but she is unsatisfied and insists on enrolling at Kenya High.
“We have tried all we could to persuade her that Pangani is also a good school but in vain, she still griefs missing Kenya High,” Rebbecca said.
They are now requesting that Education CS Ezekiel Machogu intervene in order for their daughter to terminate her hunger strike.
” We fear losing her, it is close to a week just surviving on sips of water, please someone help,” the mother said.
Girl on Hunger Strike Griefs Missing Kenya High, Blames Teacher
