The proposal that the school year be amended to allow learners peaceful examinations is missing the point as far as education reforms are concerned. The core problem is not whether the terms are short or long or whether learners sit their exams in October or November. It is the quality of the education that the children are receiving. It is about the need to remove the focus from its over concentration on rote learning as is currently the system.
During the term, the children are already overburden with classwork which extends further into an unimaginable load of homework. There is tuition on Saturdays and in some schools even Sundays. The holidays are non-existent for those in examination classes or those in line to sit either KCSE or KCPE.
Holiday tuition is compulsory and is only geared at making the children pass exams. Changing the school term dates without addressing the fundamental problems in the education system will deliver nothing. It will just continue to add to the burden of the children who are already under great stress to 'shine at exams' and not to learn.
Quote of the day: “Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages”Rudyard Kipling born on December 30, 1865 was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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