Date Posted: 9/26/2012 2:43:17 PM
Posted By: Joyeux Membership Level: Silver Total Points: 482
Education in Kenya has been set in a way whereby it brings a difference among people in terms of social class and this is why by the end some emerge as winners, some losers and also we have the rich and poor at the extreme end of it all. If I may state from the very beginning, we have private and public schools. The kind of learning that goes on in private schools is not comparable at all to that of public schools. Most Government schools per class hold not less than forty students and have at least two streams each. With this, it becomes very hard for students to get most attention from their teachers. This way their performance is affected a lot. They also have limited reading materials and since most students are from poor family background, they can barely afford text books for their class work. Private schools are a total contrast of the public institutions and that is why children of the rich always tend to perform better in life than those of a common poor Kenyan. If i may give an example, in some parts of the country schools are built up to class five and after that children hardly proceed further.On the other hand, some students get privileged to go study even abroad. Sincerely the lives of these two children can never be the same.The government should built more schools and employ more teachers and try to keep the education standards the same all over so every child can benefit.
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