Let's treat all children fairly in Form One selection

My heart was recently moved by a simple statement made by one young boy, with regard to the public/private schools criteria for Form One selection. The distraught boy stated with clarity of thought and heaviness of heart, "I am not a private child!" And how true.

There are no private or public children in this country – only Kenyans. Their future is staked, not on whether they attend private or public schools, but rather on what opportunities come their way, and how they utilise those opportunities. Unfortunately, the nature of life is such that we neither can nor will ever all have equal or similar opportunities.