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Get to the bottom of strikes, riots in secondary schools

Parents in a dorm gutted by fire in one of the cubicles at Ofafa Jericho High School in Nairobi on September 21, 2021. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Boarding school strikes are the new cause of moral panic in Kenya. Yet, instead of dealing with the root causes of the problem, many public officials remain wedded to old ideas that blame teenage indiscipline and lack of corporal punishment.

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