How cheating in National exams have lead to arson cases in schools

Experience tells us that, if you cage an animal for an extended period of time and direct negative pressure towards it. The animal will eventually break and go wild on the owner. Schools and the education systems have failed the students.

 Students have been treated like cattle for far too long. And when they stampede, we the public react in surprise and quickly go on a blaming spree. What we are currently seeing is the effects of a complete failure in the current system of education. The effect, meets cause.

The red lights went on way back in 2006 when there was rampant cheating that lead to the first time in Kenyan history two set of different exam results, released by KNEC on February 2007. This is where the rain started biting us.

 I expected uproar and maybe even a system overhaul but typical Kenya politics people made a bit of noise for a few weeks then everything got thrown under the rag. Now the stinking degraded skeletons are crawling out of the closets and no amount of covering up will do. Due to some ill-conceived, ill investigated and half-baked plan by the ministry of education to cab cheating in 2007, the ministry was able to threaten their way to 15 school strikes by my count, including my former school, despite all the threats and change of KNEC bosses, exams were still leaked and there was rampant cheating.

Since then, the ministry has been completely clueless over what to do in this crisis, therefore only making temporary fixes while the state of Kenya graduates deteriorated. The government and the Kenya people buried their heads in the sand, hoping the crisis would fix itself. Something needs to be done urgently; something well-conceived planned and well executed something permanent. Something which involves everyone in the education industry.