Teacher encourages pupils to eat lizards

An unnamed grade six teacher at St Christopher's Primary School in Gwanda is reportedly encouraging pupils to eat lizards allegedly because the world will soon run out of food and people will be forced to eat lizards.

In a complaint tip off sent to Bulawayo24.com, an anonymous parent claiming to be having a child at the school said that her grade seven daughter reported to her that some grade six pupils were recently caught eating lizards at the school and told authorities that their teacher had encouraged them to start practising eating lizards as the world will soon run out of food following Donald Trump's election as US President.

According to the parent two pupils were caught red handed by other pupils sharing the live lizard during break time and implicated the teacher on interrogation. The pupils are said to have said that the teacher read to them the issue from a South African magazine.

Contacted for a comment, the headmaster of the school Mr Michael Manda said that the issue was an internal matter which is not for publication in the media. Questioned if Ministry of Education officials had been informed of the incident, the headmaster insisted that the matter was an internal matter at the school which they had since addressed administratively.

A member of the School Development Committee who would not be identified told Bulawayo24.com that he was not aware of the matter and that the school had not reported anything of the nature to the committee.

Contacted for further verifications, the parent blasted both the headmaster and the SDC describing them as dangerous elements in the community who fail to guard the interest of the community to protect certain individuals.

"The SDC is either a group of incompetent over heralded persons who don't know nor care about the welfare of our children or they are just blatant liars who are also protecting their friends in the school system," she angrily responded.

"The headmaster can not keep such a matter to himself and say it's an internal matter. He can not deliver our children to Satanists and protect them the way he is doing," added the parent.

The SDC member further refused to give this journalist the SDC Chairman's contacts referring the reporter back to the headmaster and school authorities.