Why government plan to abolish boarding schools is far from learned

Boarding schools are very popular with parents, partly because they have strict rules and are able to mould children into responsible citizens. . [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Basic Education PS Belio Kipsang recently shocked the country when he announced that the government had abolished boarding schools for grades one to nine.

The move, he said, will make education affordable as the schools had become expensive. The shift in policy is one of the recommendations made by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms in a report presented to President William Ruto.