Bitter Row Erupts as Teachers, Candidates Fight Over Male Youth’s Wh00per at Kirumbi P/S as 29 Out of 31 Pupils Fail PLE

Parents at Kirumbi Primary School in Mubende district are frustrated with the poor quality of education at the school and no one concerned is taking action

Kirumbi Primary is a government-aided school in Mubende district on the border with Kassanda district used by more than five Parishes in the Kalonga subcounty.

Last year, they seated 31 pupils, only two pupils passed their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) with third grade and the other 29 failed. This fueled the anger of parents who have been quiet for years with some changing schools for their juniors.

Parents blame some teachers for behaving unprofessionally with no interest in their job and competing with pupils over men.

It’s said that female teachers engage in dating young Men around the area and start competing with their students. This is supported by Muhuye Twaha a father to one of the 2024 candidates.

Twaha says that his child was psychologically tortured by a female teacher at Kirumbi Primary School who was one of the primary seven teachers who used to throw her books whenever she took work for marking.

“I had that my child got indisciplined and fell in love with a boy in the area. It’s said that there was a teacher at the same school who loved him too, when the teacher found out, she refused to go back to class to teach saying that she could not teach her co-wife,” Twaha told Mubende Post.

The matter reached the school management committee for possible resolutions and according to Johson Byaruhanga a member of the committee the matter was resolved and the teacher returned to the class.

However, the parent of the child in question, Twaha Muhuye, says how the matter was handled was not a masculine one as the teachers and the committee showed their support for the teacher.

He explained that every time her daughter took the books to the teacher’s office for marking, she threw her book away which caused her to do poorly in her grade 7 exams.

“The committee, it’s true resolved the issue though they showed that the child was her fault which I think was unfair they should all get the same punishment.

“My daughter is among those who sat for the PLE exams and he got 32 but I believe due to the way the school registered failures my daughter is wise to be in the third grade because of his experiences if it wasn’t that, she would have done even better,” He Said.

Muhuye Twaha was once a former private teacher at Kirumbi Primary School but he blames the district education authorities for treating the school as a punishment destination for those who commit crimes.

“The teachers who are sent here, all of them first fail where they are, and then they are sent here as punishment which is one of the reasons why our school is backward,” he said.

Other parents blame the government’s policies that don’t allow students to pay even a single coin for the bitterness of their schools yet most of the equipment comes late at schools hence the poor performances.

“You find when the school management committee agrees to put some amount of money for parents to pay for service they rush to authorities saying that the government said no parent should pay even a single coin yet the services are not there and then you find a school in miserable zone,” A parent told Mubende Post.

Parents claim teachers are not paying attention to students which has led to deteriorating education. However, Twaha Lwamiti, who acts as the Headteacher of the school, blames the problem on the lack of teachers which leads to poor performance.

By Tuesday the second week of the beginning of term one 2025 pupils at Kirumbi Primary School had not seen any teacher in class and as we filed this story the school had only three teachers and pupils were cleaning the compound others preparing classes from where they left it during the closer of the third term 2024.

When Mubende Post reached out to Mubende District Education Officer, Asaph Kabunga said they had already sent teachers to the school with their transfer letters to replace those that had transferred from Kirumbi to other schools and warned that those who may be late would be punished that all teacher should not hesitate to go to the schools where they are sent.

Kabunga added that the issue of students fighting with teachers for men is common in schools.

The Kirumbi primary school has six teachers and more than 400 Pupils, however, their hope for getting first grades and passing is far from coming as the school has taken decades without getting first grades from their upbrought pupils and now parents need improvement.