Students explore several factors associated with teachers to give them amusing nicknames.
These depend on teachers' food habits, dressing code, pronunciation of certain words, styles of punishment, bode physic and how the teachers deliver content.
These are some of the funny names that students formulate and give their tutors.
GSU: No student would like to be on the wrong side with the GSU.
Neither will they like to be taken to the staffroom for punishment when GSU is around. These teachers believe in the saying 'spare the rod spoil the child' as the only form of correction.
Robot: More or less similar to GSU. They punish students without sense of humanness. They don't consider the extent of punishing. Neither do they consider where they cane nor how the student is reacting. They are not human beings and they don't feel like and for human beings.
'Kama ng'ombe' : This in English means 'like a cow'. It is a name given to old teachers who when punishing needs no struggle with their victims. Before they administer any stroke, they say 'kama ng'ombe' to instruct you to be like a cow, to take the posture of a cow.
Highway 'chafu' : Name given to mostly young female teachers, newly employed or on teaching practice. They dress like a typical second year university student. Many times putting a skirt just above or far above the knees. Whenever they appear from the gate, or seen within the compound, boys make the comment 'highway chafu'.
All the other boys then looks up to stare at the scene.
Test tube: Hope you know test tubes and boiling tubes. The difference is that test tube is narrower. Slender female chemistry teachers, especially tall ones are likely to be named after the apparatus.
Bolt: You know Usain Bolt? Yes, some Bolts also work in schools. These are syllabus coverers. They hardly miss a lesson. To put it better, they hardly get late for a lesson by one minute and leave at least five minutes past their time. They bore students especially when their lessons are the first in the morning or the last one to lunch.
'Jamogo' : This means 'one who likes food'. Whenever they have a lesson to lunch, they teach with much of their attention at the cook who should be taking food to the the staff. They mix all kinds of foods provided, and sometimes end up bloating.
Every time they release gases because of bloating they make a consoling comment 'that's why I hate coke' to fool the students.