On Thursday, August 18, Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha pleaded with school principals not to send children home for nonpayment of fees due to the current economic crisis.
The CS was speaking at the commissioning of two Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) classrooms at Mary Leakey Girls High School in Kiambu County.
“Because we are in very difficult times, I plead with school heads not to send children home for fees during these economic times,” Magoha noted.
The declaration, he said meant to ensure no learner is sent home for having fees arrears.
Students will be in school for one month, close on September 17 and finish the third term by November 25.
“Parents should give children whatever they have and once children arrive at school they should not be sent back home,” he said.
“If you want to engage the parents most of them have phones, parents have suffered and we understand,” he added.
Magoha urged school heads who feel overburdened to reach out to him, via a phone call.
“My line is always open, you can call me. For students who are struggling, please in the name of God let us struggle with them,” he said.
This is an attempt to ensure learners spend the remaining four weeks of the second term in school.
The 2022 academic year has two national exams with the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE) slated between November 28 and December 23.
The Grade Six exam will be administered between November 28 and 30, with 1.27 million candidates registered to sit the pioneer exam under the new curriculum which will see them join junior secondary schools.
