Why are we experimenting with children’s education?

The Kenyan school system is going off the rails. Someone needs to save it urgently if State House will not. I have written here before. Our children’s education is going to the dogs. Maybe it has even arrived. But I seem to be engaged in the dialogue of the deaf. This visible malignancy began to metastasize under Superman Dr Fred Matiang’i. It is now reaching dizzying levels under Ambassador Amina Mohamed. The Cabinet Secretary for Education inherited the malignancy of branding the CEO from Matiang’i. They brand themselves at the expense of education. Someday the world is going to ask, “How did Kenyans entrust their children to an irredeemably broken system? What did they expect in return?”

Three weeks ago, Kenya began implementing a fragmentary new school curriculum. Nobody in the Ministry of Education has the whole picture of what it should look like. Not a single individual in the whole country knows what the children are supposed to learn under the new 2-6-3-3-3 system. Last month, Mohamed announced that implementation of the new system was being shelved until possibly 2020. She stated that we were not ready. Then – suddenly – she beat a retreat.