Schools dilemma as Uhuru meets players to decide learners' fate

Kirawa Road School pupils in Nairobi quipped with face masks. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

About 10 million primary and secondary schoolchildren are staring at a lost academic year and delayed transition to next classes if learning does not start in the next two weeks.

The Standard has established that the next two weeks are critical in determining whether it would still be possible to recover lost school time, beyond which it would be difficult to salvage the academic year.