Shidodo Senior School new principal Ebelia Ali has expressed concern on last year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) dismal performance revealing that bullfighting luhyia community culture and gold mining highly affected the results.
Speaking at the Kakamega based school, the new head said students taking part in the two activities has led to chronic absenteeism, whereby students deliberately decide not to come to school even if they have not been sent home for fees.
He added that so many students did not report back to school after half term break, the issue he say has worried the administration on the future of the academic trajectory.
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He added that students in the area prone to the two activities always chose to go to mine gold at the expense of education, leading the school to pose poor results at the national exams.
Ali urged the current Form Four candidates to put aside bullfighting and gold mining and focus in their studies to do better, and appealed to the local community to come together, share ideas and help students learn for a better future.
He further urged candidates to be consistent in school so that teachers can give their best in end term exams in order to get a clear picture of the capability of 2026 class.
The school now targets to improve its mean score from last year’s 2.to 3.0 for the 2026 class.
By Hilda Atika
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