By Allan Kibet
As placement for Form One students to secondary schools by the Ministry of Education (MoE) enters the second week, parents have specific demands to the ministry on how they could like their children’s selection to be carried out.
The parents from Kiambu County are asking Education CS George Magoha to ensure that all candidates who scored more than 400 marks should be placed in national schools across the country.
Some of the parents from Kiambu County have opposed the proposed criteria that would lead to 30 per cent of top candidates in the region being posted to national schools within the same region.
The demands were issued recently by a group of parents called Kiambu Parents Association led by the Chairperson Samuel Wanjema and Kiamnu County Assembly Education Committee member Peter Wainaina.
The group said that they would not allow to be shortchanged as their children have been disadvantaged on form one placements in the previous years.
Kiambu Constituency Member of Parliament, Jude Njomo, recently built more day schools in his constituency to accommodate students who are left out from top schools to ensure they access secondary education closer home.
Baringo South elites recently wrote to the Ministry demanding special attention to KCPE candidates from banditry- prone areas on form the one selection.
Represented by the High Court Advocate Fridah Lotuiya, who is also seeking Baringo South Parliamentary seat, the group said they wants class eight candidates in areas affected by insecurity to be given priority in form one selection exercise.
“KCPE candidates especially from Baringo South and Baringo North who were affected by banditry did not get a conducive environment to write their national exams,” Lotuiya said.
