Really, Why Are Our High School Students On A Rampage?
The recent string of unrests in public secondary schools in Kenya that have resulted in the loss of school property through arson and breakages and also caused injury to persons have exposed critical unattended, underlying issues in our education system. An oft-referred investigation apparently commissioned by the Ministry of Education concludes that the unrest is principally as a result of panic amongst a section of form four students in various schools who are unprepared to sit their final exams later in the year. Apparently the tough measures to curb cheating in examinations dubbed the Matiangi rules have left this lot with little else than try to sink the ship together with all aboard it, so to speak. The findings are quite laughable as they are saddening considering that most of us who graduated a while ago from high school and might have participated in one form of agitation or another against the school administration know that a lot is being left ...