Magoha Proposes Establishment of approved schools to tame student unrest, Rubbishes Ridding of Boarding Schools
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has said getting rid of boarding schools cannot be a remedy for curbing unrest in learning institutions. Magoha maintained that the answer to taming school unrest lies in establishing approved schools to reform wayward children. He blamed the unrest on truancy.
According to Magoha, 99 per cent of boarding schools are well run and there haven’t been cases of unrest in a majority of them. He noted that it will therefore be sensible to abolish them due to trouble in a few schools.
Speaking at Mahiga Girls today during a groundbreaking ceremony for CBC classrooms, Magoha said the Ministry of Education will deal firmly with cases of unrest in schools.
“Why would one want to dismantle boarding schools just because of a few schools where children who have defeated their parents at home and brought their rowdy attitude to school? We should deal with them firmly,” said the CS.
He stressed that “criminal children in a few schools’ should not be the ones to determine how the country runs its education system.
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Education stakeholders such as Kenya Primary Schools Head teachers Association (Kepsha) and Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) have been urging the ministry to scrap boarding schools as part of measures to curb unrest in schools.
The Cabinet secretary also differed with education stakeholders’ calls for corporal punishment to be reinstated in schools. He observed that some schools have no cases of indiscipline and it would be unfair to categorise them with those having indiscipline cases.
“There is a question as to those who smoke bhang and other drugs in boarding schools, approved schools will deal with them,” he noted.
On the state of security and safety in Lamu schools with regard to the upcoming national exams, Magoha said the Interior ministry has assured him that normalcy will be restored before the start of the exams.
“We are working closely with the Interior ministry and the security in Lamu is being addressed. In six weeks’ time, things will be okay. The national examinations will be very friendly because we have taken all considerations,” he announced.
