Parents in Embu County have suggested that caution must be taken when reforming the education sector to avoid haphazard restructuring and confusion among learners.
The parents said that while it is healthy to restructure education, hasty adaption of changes affect learners and their future professional pathways, sometimes limiting skills acquisition.
They said that while they welcomed the Kenya Kwanza education reforms as informed by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reform (PWPER), present analysis by private experts make education in Kenya appear haphazard.
One of the parents Annie Kamanu noted that even after initiation of the changes, key education stakeholders and researchers still want to push for reforms independently.
Commenting on the recently released Foundational Literacy Numeracy Assessment report by the Usawa Agenda, which seems to poke hole in the on-going reforms, the parents wish the government could create a national education commission to manage all matters education in the country.
Usawa Agenda Executive Director Dr Emmanuel Manyasa noted that despite reforms in education and free education for all, drop out remains high.
He argues that the various factors afflicting education could potentially jeopardize the success of the CBC and even emphasized the need for comprehensive and effective educational reforms.
The concerned parents wondered why some parents and guardians allow their children to abandon school, with research revealing that parental involvement leads to 3 out of 100 children dropping out of school.
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