End Free Secondary Education in Kenya
End Free Secondary Education in Kenya
Each and every child in the Republic of Kenya is entitled to receive a top-notch education. The ability to provide high-quality education depends on the availability of learning resources, which include both produced and homemade teaching and learning aids as well as staff. The introduction of CBC offered hope in the area of aligning educational curricula with the competences demanded by the labor market. Gok has donated millions to the CBC Foundational Establishment out his loyalty to Kenyan children.
Beginning with building of CBC Classrooms across the country to retooling of teachers to acquaint them with requisite CBC skills not to mention the massive teacher recruitment Kenya government has done albeit labour malpractices surrounding the recruitment. The country has already invested a lot in the curriculum.
It is our duty to make sure that the tax payer’s money, which goes toward education, is being used wisely, including the amount allotted to the JSS entity. Considering the needs of junior secondary schools, the government has allocated relatively little money to JSS. There have been calls from various places for the government to raise capitation to JSS. I stand behind the callers and push ourselves to make sure the money is used wisely. Does the work at a school that has received Ksh. 200,000 for maintenance and improvement truly reflect the worth of that amount?
Do we have chairs and offices? Even with temporary setups, everyone would agree that we’ve used up all of the $200K that we were given. Secondary instructors in JSS are faced with enormous obstacles. According to their reports, there is a complete lack of teaching and learning materials.
This calls for an extensive audit of the quantity of resources purchased by each school in relation to the total money sent to those schools since the schools’ founding. What exactly is the issue? Is it the resource managers or Gok? The public needs an answer to this topic in order to be certain that a generation of youngsters is not going missing. murdered by a fraudulent education tainted by a severe lack of available instructional tools.
Given the austerity measures that our nation is pushing for, we would prefer to recognize early on—before we become more disoriented—that there are sufficient sub-county secondary schools in every state to serve at least 70% of JSS students. We could save a lot of money if we could all put aside our egos and self-serving interests as a nation and move all JSS students to Sub-County Secondary schools when it is feasible.
We could save a ton of money for other national priorities while shielding kids from inadequate schooling. The secondary schools in Sub County have enough labs for lab practicals, CBC classrooms that were constructed in 2021 and 2022, and teachers who are comfortable teaching JSS material.
We think of building independent junior secondary schools in areas where secondary schools are far away. We could accomplish a lot as a nation if all of the JSS teachers—those who have already been hired and those who are already employed by secondary schools—came together to form a strong pool of educators to work with JSS students. The sooner we come to terms with the fact that we are killing a generation of people, the better.
Given that secondary schools already have laboratories, why would we pay the costs of building new ones? Why should students be burdened with walking to nearby secondary schools during class to access laboratories when they may go there in the morning and spend the entire day learning with unrestricted access to lab equipment and other fantastic resources?
Why would we, a nation that is having difficulty paying off debt, watch as billions of dollars that were intended to build CBC classrooms are squandered? We can still turn around because it’s early. In order to lessen the underimplementation of their curriculum, let’s establish JSS autonomous institutions if transferring students and teachers to secondary schools is not feasible.
The predicted practical principles have been transformed into theoretical frameworks. The requirements of the JSS curriculum cannot be met in the primary school setting. We have to be honest with ourselves and acknowledge that we are murdering this generation. We also need to decide quickly to stop the harm before it causes learners and teachers irreversible harm.
