Should pregnant students be forced to leave University?
BACKGROUND:
Twenty-six
girls have been suspended from Uganda Christian University’s Kabale
affiliate college for conceiving before marriage. They were found to be
pregnant during random tests.
The girls accuse the university of suspending them without hearing them out.
However,
Godwin Kiiza, the Dean of Students, maintains the students who were
suspended were admitted as single students and they are not supposed to
be engaged in a sexual immorality, that is, sex before marriage.
The university policy provides that unmarried girls who get pregnant automatically suspend themselves.
Twinomujuni said that when girls give birth or officially marry, they are allowed to sit for their examinations.
Uganda Christian University is not the only university that has a
strict morally oriented policy against unmarried girls who get
pregnant.
QUESTION:
Should pregnant students be forced to leave University?
A. YES
B. NO
INSTRUCTIONS:
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to messages on your phone and type in STUDIO followed by either A. YES
or B. NO plus your reason. Send your message to 8585 - Totally FREE of
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