11/08/2024
Mrs. Ikua came to class in the middle of a lesson and pointed me out and told me to stand up. ' I hate you and how you always place your head to the side. Look at your self, I don't even now why they bring you to school,' she told me.
You see, I had not been doing my homework and a teacher reported me to her and she decided to insult me. But that was not the first time she insulted me, it was her daily routine and always picked on how I looked, how I dressed, my skin colour or even how I wrote or did things in front of her. I could never do enough or be enough for that headteacher(and I did try my best), but this day it's like she gave my teachers the green light to ashame me whenever they felt like and the rest of that year I never knew peace.
I left that school and the end of that year but Mrs. Ikua never left me. I have always been keen with most things she tried to correct in me, I am never good enough, beautiful enough, or anything enough because I am afraid of the Mrs. Ikuas I meet nowadays to correct anything in me. I am very defensive and I never let a pimple mature.
Now that I am a parent and guardian, I am keen not to let any Mrs. Ikua fill daughters with what I was filled with. Anytime, any time i am not there to defend them, and they tell me someone made them feel less in any way I always tell them otherwise.
All in all, just to let you know is words have power. People will do things to make you or your children feel inferior, work through them there and then or those words will have effect for the rest of life
