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Reforms Team Wants Over 30,000 Boarding Schools Abolished

Reforms Team Wants Over 30,000 Boarding Schools Abolished

Reforms Team Wants Over 30,000 Boarding Schools Abolished

If the recommendations of the presidential task force on education are accepted and implemented, boarding primary and secondary schools may be eliminated as early as next year.

If its proposal to eliminate all public primary and secondary residential schools is implemented, 32,437 primary schools and more than 3,000 secondary schools will be converted to day schools.

Only the 105 national secondary schools will be permitted to continue operating as residential schools.

In exchange, they will be transformed into centres of excellence charged with accepting students from Junior Secondary School (JSS).

In the past, student unrest at boarding schools has resulted in the destruction of dormitories.

Some residential schools have experienced a health crisis in recent months, resulting in the hospitalization or death of some students due to lapses in health and sanitation.

To determine which students will continue on to regular day schools and which will be admitted to centres of excellence, the taskforce has proposed the use of comparative scores to determine which students are best suited for which type of institution.

Under the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), the junior high school (JSS) consists of Grades 7, 8, and 9, after which students advance to Senior Secondary (Grades 10, 11, and 12).

Unlike their current 8-4-4 system counterparts, whose examination scores determine their advancement to the next level, CBC has adopted a continuous assessment-based system to eliminate the cutthroat competition associated with national examinations such as the KCPE and KCSE.

At a number of public engagement forums organized by the taskforce, the question of whether or not to abolish boarding schools dominated discussion, with some participants arguing that learners must be near to their parents and guardians during their formative years.

The task force, also known as the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, has proposed that boarding schools be phased out.

Part of the PWPER report states, “Depending on the availability of financial resources to upgrade all the non-national schools to the same status as the latter, the abolishment should be within a time frame of five years.“

Reforms Team Wants Over 30,000 Boarding Schools Abolished

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