Rescue parents, students by enforcing ban on tuition

Stranded students in Kisumu after they were sent home following unrest. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

The fundamentals and values of a holistic education no longer matter in Kenya. That there exists totally useless competition for ranking and mean grades between well-run private schools and neglected public schools tells it all.

Successive Education Cabinet Secretaries have purported to issue edicts that head teachers, county education officers and their union officials ignore without fear of consequences. Take Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu's latest ban on early morning and evening preps for instance.