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Teachers employed in church founded schools are required to either get married or lose their jobs.
“There are teachers who just cause pregnancies, but don’t have any plans to marry. The Church cannot tolerate these ones,” the Mukono Diocesan Secretary, Rev. Moses Banja quoted in this article.
Marriage in Uganda, is a complex issue. From asking your lovely lady to accept you, meeting the parents and paying the bride price (dowry) - the ceremony alone taking hours with the groom literaly not sure if he will be accepted by the bride’s family. From there, it to church, at the end of it all, alot of time and money spent in planning and scheduling the events. Great pictures of this ceremony in this article.
Being that everyone is going through a hard time with the current food crisis, ever rising fuel prices with no sign of ever coming down again and no increases in the incomes, it would be a terrible time to ask anyone to consider splashing alot of money on planning marriage, especially the way we do it today. The church also stands to lose out on the best teachers after most of them decide to leave for privately owned schools.
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What is the problem here? Pregnancies?
What is the best way to deal with it? Punish teachers who break the law.
But in Africa, someone whose house is on fire often is seen pursuing rat.
If you kick unmarried teachers out, do you have a good supply of married ones? Are maried ones as committed as the unmarried ones? You can bet that the church did not think of that.
Are married teachers not involved in pregnancies? I think they are - maybe on equal level.
And what about female teachers? Are the unmarried ones also causing pregnancies?
And to the writer, if marriage is expensive and times are hard, why can’t the ceremony be streamlined?
Oh, Africa, my Africa.
Its Africa alright, no matter what people are going through, old customs die hard! Look at the case of HIV/AIDS, no matter how much people are told that group circumcision using same unsterilized knife might lead to contracting the deadly disease, no one listens! Its a tradition/custom!
In the same, the ceremony cannot yet be streamlined because everybody is doing it that way. If you dont, then society deems your marriage as fake!
Details are up to everyone else but the involved couple, demands and requests over shadow love and joy.
Money and wedding costs seem to topple.
I am not even sure I understand what they mean by ’causing pregnancies’. But why can’t they just live and let live? That is something I will always fail to understand in the African Society..
Causing pregnancies means making young girls - students, pregnant. And maybe young boys, too. Who know? You never can tell what Idi Amin’s people can do.
What baffles me is how female teachers make young girls-students, pregnant. And maybe young boys, too. Who knows. You never can tell what Idi Amin’s people can do.
I understand your reference to rape in this case. But you bet that if teachers in America are still taking advantage of kids in their care, in Uganda where very few can define such relationship between a teacher and a minor as rape, there is a long way to go.
Rodolf points out all the fallacies so no need to spell out more.
P.S. let me assure everyone here that marriages everywhere if strictly done as per the prescribed procedures, are essentially costly affairs. So no need to single out any specific culture/country.
