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Kaimosi Girls School Bans Lipstick, Make-up Among Female Staff

BY Soko Directory Team · June 5, 2016 06:06 am

What equates as a bad influence to the youth? Is it one’s physical appearance? As youth grow into young adulthood, who are their role models? Who do they emulate?

Studies have shown that, from childhood, through adolescence, they decide what socially acceptable behavior is and what is not. This is acquired through modelling. This is a gradual systematic process in which they create shared meanings. The meanings are created and shared by groups of people through participation that form the context of common interpretations.

However, in Western Kenya, a school has decided to ban its female teachers from wearing lipstick and the use of makeup saying, ‘It is very difficult to correct some students in our school over the use of lipstick and makeup.’

Mrs. Opala Violet Oyungu, the principal of Kaimosi Girls in Vihiga in a letter dated 2nd June says, ‘Form the date of this letter,  all female staff should use lipstick or eye makeup while on duty in school and while with students out of any school function.’

The letter goes further to say that, ‘It is unfortunate that the girls are pointing at us to be misleading hem in that area. Let us remain proper role models to the girls in all ways.’

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However, the teachers have room, but how it will be effected so that there is no contact with the students is the irony. This is because most schools have residents for teachers within it sharing the same compound. ‘You are allowed to use lipstick while not with students or while not on duty.’

Kaimosi is one of the many Quaker Mission schools in the Western Kenya region after missionaries Arthur Chilson and Edgar Hole set foot in 1902 to spread the gospel.

In the region one can easily locate, Friends Kaimosi Primary School one of the oldest formal school in Kenya, Kaimosi Boys Secondary School, Friends University — a constituent college of Masinde Muliro University of Sience and Technology, Kaimosi Technical Training College, Kaimosi Special School for the Mentally Handicapped  and the Kaimosi Bible College.

Perhaps the move by the Kaimosi principle is in line with Ministry of Education’s ban on all motivational talks in schools to boost the security of students and the cancelling of visiting days, prayer days and other social activities during schools’ in third term.

The challenges affecting the Youth are massive. Communities and the government will only hope for better days, if only they will take solid steps to empower the youth to realize their potential by supporting them.

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