Scramble for top schools indictment of our system

St Anns Mumias student Jacinta Khasungu shes carried shoulder high by her teachers as they celebrated KCPE results, she scored 427 marks. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

It probably doesn't happen anywhere else in the world except in Kenya, where 150,000 students scramble for 400 slots to get into high school.

And that happens every year. Elite private schools and universities in the West would envy this data.