The Secondary Hood

Poor Ginger Warrior.

Almost all my kids are delightful, polite, friendly, respectful, affectionate and gorgeous. The same can’t be said about the students on the Secondary campus.

Spoilt teenagers suck at the best of times, and these kids think they are LA Gangstas in D’ Hood. Peer pressure is enormous and there behaviour generally appalling. Several of the Grade 10s go regularly go to Addis’ most exclusive nightclub H2O throughout the week. (It is alleged that the club spent some US$8 million on interior decoration alone). Like myself, Ginger Warrior succeeded a weak and ineffectual Director, which clearly hasn’t helped.

Ginger Warrior goes in tough on uniform. He issues parents and students deadlines in threatening tones in his weekly Newsletters, and then sends kids home if they are inappropriately attired. No-one messes with Ginger Warrior! He’s hoping the introduction of compulsory ties this week will put an end to the teenage tarts that unbutton the school shirts to their belly-button. 

In the first 7 weeks of his first term, Ginger Warrior has had to deal with: -

horrendous and biologically explicit drawings and graffiti in the squalid bathrooms

a complete drug search after it came to light that marijuana was being sold openly in the corridors during break time 

One of the Grade 10 girls jerking off her boyfriend during a Physics lesson

Nonetheless Ginger Warrior seems to thrive on it all. Respec’