LATEST EXCLUSIVE EDUCATION NEWS: KENYAN PARENTS AND THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION CLASH OVER CBC, HERE ARE THE DETAILS
KENYAN PARENTS COMPLAIN ABOUT TOO LONG LISTS OF CBC LEARNING MATERIALS AS SCHOOLS OPEN, IS CBC TOO EXPENSIVE FOR KENYAN PARENTS?
Parents of the CBC generation have expressed their discontent on social media platforms with the unnecessarily expensive nature of the new Competency-Based Curriculum.
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As schools opened this week, parents of CBC pupils were given long shopping lists entailing all the learning materials they are expected to buy to facilitate smooth learning despite the harsh economy.
One Nairobi- based school directed parents with pupils at Grade one to buy a ream of printing papers, paint colours, coloured pencils, glue and several books.
In Molo, one school wanted parents of Grade one pupils to purchase a clear file with 20 or more pockets, paint colours, Good News Bible among other things.
Replying to Brian Okulla’s tweet who expressed his view on CBC without fear or favour, parents said that this new CBC curriculum is way too expensive for the majority of the Kenyan populace.
Okulla criticized CBC saying it is as if the new curriculum was created to punish parents. He further added that he wonders how the new CBC Curriculum is supposed to work for families with several children in this tough economy.
According to the parents, when CBC was introduced, teachers promised to teach learners to improvise learning aids but now they have changed tack by making expensive demands on parents.
Other parents also complained of being “too involved” in the implementation of the new CBC Curriculum.
They are expected to take part in their children’s assignments. They questioned this involvement arguing that some parents are illiterate, so how can they help their children in undertaking some of these assignments?
CONTRAVENTION OF THE LAW?
In an interview with The Saturday Nation, Education CS Professor George Magoha made it clear that no parent will be asked to buy anything since public schools were providing textbooks and other basic materials.
The big question is “ARE TEACHERS GOING AGAINST THE LAW?”
