Kenya's public school children and the hurdles of life
September 27 2015 By Abi Giwa
A court of law has ordered schools to be reopened; the government has jumped on the bandwagon of the court's order on Friday,simultaneously ordering schools to be reopened for kid, for children whose reliance has been hedged on fate, because their country's government don't understand or the leaders are completely ignorant of requirements needed to run and manage a country. the leaders rushed and ordered schools to be reopened after they had first fractured the smooth running of the schools, they also have forgotten the need to consult with the teachers over what to do about the earlier rulings, which had ordered pay rise for the teachers.
Of course, the court ruling that ordered schools reopened for the next 90 days to enable government and teachers engage in dialogue to resolve the stalemate did not cancel court ordered pay rise for the teachers and did say the teachers strike was illegal. And the teachers have been forced to remind the government that the government need to uphold the earlier court order on pay rise before its members could return to classes. What the teachers have reminded the leaders is for them to be on the side of the rule of law by obeying court orders or reject court orders and for the world to see what they are as lawless leaders , who rely own their whims. Kenya's public school children may return to school tomorrow and not find teachers in the classrooms .
The hard experience of Kenua children will remind anyone who has had similar experience of what it is like to be in such shoes. A shoe of watching children of the rich in private schools, while you imagine the unfortunate situate fate has placed you. It is a condition akin to traveling through a dark tunnel in a war zone. And what will further make such experience unfortunate is that it is not a war zone. But when parents and teachers are not at loggerheads over teachers' welfare, leading to disruptions and uncertainty, inability of parents to pay school fees, when one leaves the elementary school and ready to go to high school will be headache.
By the time a child finishes high school, the thought of university education is completely out of the agenda. It is a time a child will mostly count mother fortune to open a door for further education, because he or she knows the parents are incapacitated and there is no magic you can perform to continue on the line of education like other children around you. it is time like this that brings the words of President Lyndon B. Johnson about the role a family, community and the country play in shaping the life of the little boy toward becoming a man.
Life for most African public school teachers is not enviable. It is more like a hard and one will not pray to have. But they still do the most they can to help the poor children in their care navigate the difficult path thoughtless leaders forced on them. Leaders who would wish to have the children out of school and turn them into instruments of attrition in their foolish political battles.
Of course, the court ruling that ordered schools reopened for the next 90 days to enable government and teachers engage in dialogue to resolve the stalemate did not cancel court ordered pay rise for the teachers and did say the teachers strike was illegal. And the teachers have been forced to remind the government that the government need to uphold the earlier court order on pay rise before its members could return to classes. What the teachers have reminded the leaders is for them to be on the side of the rule of law by obeying court orders or reject court orders and for the world to see what they are as lawless leaders , who rely own their whims. Kenya's public school children may return to school tomorrow and not find teachers in the classrooms .
The hard experience of Kenua children will remind anyone who has had similar experience of what it is like to be in such shoes. A shoe of watching children of the rich in private schools, while you imagine the unfortunate situate fate has placed you. It is a condition akin to traveling through a dark tunnel in a war zone. And what will further make such experience unfortunate is that it is not a war zone. But when parents and teachers are not at loggerheads over teachers' welfare, leading to disruptions and uncertainty, inability of parents to pay school fees, when one leaves the elementary school and ready to go to high school will be headache.
By the time a child finishes high school, the thought of university education is completely out of the agenda. It is a time a child will mostly count mother fortune to open a door for further education, because he or she knows the parents are incapacitated and there is no magic you can perform to continue on the line of education like other children around you. it is time like this that brings the words of President Lyndon B. Johnson about the role a family, community and the country play in shaping the life of the little boy toward becoming a man.
Life for most African public school teachers is not enviable. It is more like a hard and one will not pray to have. But they still do the most they can to help the poor children in their care navigate the difficult path thoughtless leaders forced on them. Leaders who would wish to have the children out of school and turn them into instruments of attrition in their foolish political battles.
