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Bags and books bogging us down, say school children

Advent Hill Primary School pupils during a conference on curriculum review in Nairobi yesterday. [photo: BEVERLYNE MUSILI/standard]

Education experts were left scratching their heads after primary school children raised their voices yesterday to complain about the weight of their bags.

In a candid but gripping poem that left government officials, donors and teachers unions and journalists amazed, the pupils said the sizes of their bags was weighing them down.

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