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Acclamation worrying trend in schools, exposing parents to exploitation

Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu addresses Kereri Girls students on March 2, 2023. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

The Ministry of Education and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) must move with speed and address the runaway breach of government guidelines, largely attributed to abuse of acclamation, as a way of endorsing issues.

Headteachers have thrown reason to the wind and are in business, subjecting parents to unnecessary financial demands in the guise that it is the parents who have nodded in agreement, to the calls to fleece them.

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