Why Kenyan students are burning schools and beating their teachers

Many school heads and parents are coming to terms with the current wave of indiscipline since learning resumed following a prolonged disruption by the corona pandemic. It appears most students are struggling to re-adapt to school life after a nine-month long sabbatical and freedom of waking up to nothing.

And with a rigid and compressed timetable, life is not easy. It even gets tougher coping with back-to-back lessons from morning to evening without resting or engaging in extra curriculum activities. The old maxim ‘all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy’ aptly captures the situation learners find themselves in.