Education should be made free for learners

Parents and Form One students on long queues awaiting their admission at St Peters Boys Mumias. [File, Standard]

A majority of Form One students across the country reported to school on Monday. The smiles plastered on most of the students’ faces — going by the images published or broadcast by the media — betrayed their joy to finally join high school. You can imagine some traveled hundreds of kilometres from their villages to, say, Nairobi, Eldoret, Nakuru, Mombasa, Kilifi, Siaya, Nyeri; you name it, for the first time. Some were dropped off in school by their parents, guardians or family friends, carrying with them tonnes of shopping to last a whole term.