To be fair and honest is by no means a weakness. I mean, the government of Dr. Ruto should admit this fact. Giving any excuses, including extending the timeline for reporting of Grade 10 students, won’t help matters. This is not a hiccup that will sort itself out anytime soon. It is an administrative breakdown that needs urgent solving.
That the economy is doing extremely badly is not in question. And the ones bearing the brunt are the poor and other members of the same poor society.
These poor souls are rightly looking up to their honourable government to bail them out. But sadly, the latter doesn’t seem to have any idea how to go about the whole thing.
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The fact is that many people, including our poor parents, do not have enough money, meaning they have to be helped by the government. But the government is made up of corrupt people. You don’t expect a hapless gazelle to be helped by a wolf. You also don’t expect the high taxes to lead to anything else but a high cost of living for these same disadvantaged beings.
The Ruto government is known for one thing-Chest thumbing. They are ever averse to corrections. Domiciling the Junior secondary schools in Primary schools should not have meant that they spend the limited money that they had on facilities that were already available at the adjacent secondary schools-Labs, workshops, etc. That was simply misplacing the priorities. The government should have aimed at improving the adjacent secondary schools and saved the money that they could have helped the poor parents.
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There is this last thing that the government should do, as for now; To do away with those schools that the parents and learners don’t want. The teachers and the facilities in those schools should then be moved to the schools that are preferred by many.
And indeed, this will be good for both you and me, right?
By Enock Shirandula
The writer is a retired educationist and Author of “So different she was”
He is also a Reviewer of the Kabarasi BTL Project
@ emshirandula@yahoo.com
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