Written By Gerald Gekara | |
Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has advised school principals to negotiate with parents on how to resolve fee arrears rather than sending pupils away for nonpayment of fees.
He restated his earlier promise that the government will distribute tuition fees to all secondary schools next week, and asked administrators to keep all pupils in school regardless of whether or not they had paid their fees.
Prof. Magoha announced this at the ground-breaking ceremony for three Competence Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms at Barani Secondary School in Malindi town.
Prof Magoha however asked the principals to identify parents who are unwilling to pay despite being able to and send their children away for the fees.
“If you have evidence that the child’s father is a big shot in town but instead of paying fees, they spend most of their time in the bar, by all means send their children home,” he told the principals.
At the same time, Mr. Magoha asked school administrators to be vigilant and flush out any unruly students before they burn school property, adding that arson in schools was the work of sadists.
“If you identify a small group of students who want to go home, let them go. This nonsense of trying to burn schools because you have not been reading, you have been on drugs and now you want to burn the school so that everybody else suffers is sadistic,” he insisted.
Prof. Magoha said the government would not be deterred by the action of a few unruly students, noting that out of the more than 10,000 secondary schools in the country, only between 50 and 100 had been affected by arson.
On the construction of the CBC classrooms, Prof. Magoha assured contractors that they would be paid on time to be able to complete phase one earlier than the April 2022 deadline given by the President and start phase two by May 2022.
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