Parents Want Ruto’s Explanation on Junior Secondary School Fees Hike After CBC Review
Parents have asked President William Ruto to explain how his government will charge school fees and any extra costs that may come up after a review of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).
The guardians want to know exactly how the government will pay for some of the fees for junior secondary schools if Ruto keeps CBC.
On September 16, Nicholas Maiyo, the head of the National Parents Association (KPA), spoke to the media and said he was worried that school fees would go up when Grade 6 students moved on to junior secondary.
Maiyo said that most junior secondary schools were built in high schools. Because of this, the CBC will be run by the secondary system, which is more expensive than the primary system.
So, they asked the government to put junior high schools in primary schools instead of high schools, which is what Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha had suggested.
Teachers’ unions agreed with Maiyo that the government was wasting money by building CBC classes when the infrastructure in the primary schools was already good enough to hold the students.
Akelo Misori, the secretary-general of the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), was happy that the head of state decided to set up a task force to review CBC. He also asked that the committee be given the job of making sure that the CBC class’s transition doesn’t get in the way.
But the review should be complete so that all points of view are taken into account before a decision is made about whether to keep or get rid of CBC.
People in the education field had different reactions to Ruto’s decision to look at the CBC curriculum.
Parents Want Ruto’s Explanation on Junior Secondary School Fees Hike After CBC Review