{"id":118472,"date":"2025-07-20T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/20\/kaplong-girls-high-school-closed-as-students-protest-sexual-harassment\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:03:29","slug":"kaplong-girls-high-school-closed-as-students-protest-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/kaplong-girls-high-school-closed-as-students-protest-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaplong Girls High School closed as students protest sexual harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAKURU, Kenya, Jul 20 \u2013 Kaplong Girls High School in Bomet has been closed indefinitely after students went on rampage protesting alleged sexual harassment by a male teacher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The unrest began on Saturday afternoon when students accused a male teacher of repeated sexual misconduct, including claims that he had impregnated one of them.<\/p>\n<p>It also saw property damaged as learners reportedly broke windowpanes and damaging school property as they demanded action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report about the school closure is true following the students\u2019 unrest last night,\u201d the head teacher Clara Mitei stated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe released the students to go home at 7am today after they became unruly and disrupted school operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She stated that the main grievance by the\u00a0students was directed\u00a0at the male teacher accused of sexually harassing several learners.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are investigating and calls for accountability are growing.<\/p>\n<p>The girls also accused the school management of exacting unnecessary pressure on form fours to perform in the national exams.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAKURU, Kenya, Jul 20 \u2013 Kaplong Girls High School in Bomet has been closed indefinitely after students went on rampage protesting alleged sexual harassment by a male teacher. The unrest began on Saturday afternoon when students accused a male teacher of repeated sexual misconduct, including claims that he had impregnated one of them. It also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}