By Amoto Ndiewo
The Garissa KNUT Executive Secretary Abdirizak Hussein has thanked the Ministry of Education for announcing the much needed half term break to ease the pressure of work and students unrest from 19th to 23rd November 2021.
He said it was good for young people to go on a break as it helps to relax their minds.
“I thank the students in Garissa for not having joined the bandwagon of school strikes but all in all going by the adage all work with no play makes jack a dull boy, these students needed to have that break ,’’ said Hussein.
Hussein insisted he had earlier told the ministry that the continuously laborious classwork cannot bear fruit.
“Some of these students had been out of touch with the world of school and books during the one year Covid-19 break and by pumping volumes of knowledge in them without consideration was a psychological blunder,’’ posed the furious unionist.
He said there is time for everything and everything has a boiling point. Adding that in an attempt to regain the lost time during the height of Corona plague the ministry thought that they were dealing with robots and machines.
“These are young developing minds with busting energy and trying to pump too much knowledge could drives them amok,’’ said Hussein who called on the restructuring of extra curriculum activities in schools as it refreshes minds in schools.
The Garissa union chief further called for more counselling and guidance in order to instil discipline.
In the recent weeks there has been a myriad of student’s strikes and arsons in secondary schools across the country. The ministry and education stakeholders hope that the break would be a solution to it.
