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Which way? Parents and ministry officials clash over CBC

As schools opened this week, parents complained about long shopping lists for learning materials for the Competence Based Curriculum (CBC).

One Nairobi school required parents whose children were going to Grade One to buy a ream of printing papers, Manila papers, a graph book, coloured pencils, glue, water colours, and several books.

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