The parents’ union has chastised the government for failing to include them in the recently formed taskforce to review the new CBC education system.
Parents Association Chairman Silas Obuhatsa says the government made a mistake by not including them in the panel of 49, arguing that they play an important role in teaching students at home.
“Parents are a key part in running a school so when you form a taskforce excluding them it does not make sense. We looked at the taskforce and we saw lecturers who know nothing about a primary school affairs,” he said on Sunday.
“And let me tell you, CBC is not something to joke about because it lays the foundation of a child and if you do it wrongly the students will have no skills as they transit to junior and senior secondary schools. We want that in the near future students who are fully equipped and competent.”
According to Secretary General Eskimos Kirumbi, CBC has become a burden for parents, and excluding them from the taskforce will prevent children from learning the skills even further.
“We as parents in the villages from the grassroots have faced lots of challenges regarding our children because one you will find a child returning home when the parent is absent and yet they need help with work from school like sewing. They end up being helped by the house help.”
