I have a nephew at one of these group of schools. Apart from the excessive fees I can’t say he is much better than other nephews who attend average schools.
Asin ungetarajia kuna special programs huko. But apart from the usual kufunzwa french na kamwalimu bonoko, swimming pool and an overpriced trip occasionally. They’re not getting that much out of it.
Asin you’re paying for the same mediocre product at the high end of the market in Kenya.
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Mimi kitu yoyote inatomba office wakas I support 100% mpaka waache hii ufala ya kukaa kwa ofisi tukienda maandamano. SAA hii ukaingia street to demonstrate gava to improve public schools and hospitals office wakas will be tweeting the IG of police akuje akutandike utoke kwa barabara wasichelewe kwa muhindi. Wenye washafika kwa slave master will be tweeting from their work laptops using office WiFi vile hukuenda shule ndio maana unafanya maandamano.
But inakaa ku-own shule ni lucrative business. Hawa watu wameweka makende za wazazi kwa vice grip buana. Kuna morio flani alinishow jana ati kijana yake ako sijui grade 2 waliongezewa fee from 15k to 18k per term without warning or explanation. Jamaa ni hasora wa kuuza smokies…he makes good sales lakini aliumwa na the abrupt increase. He says khupipi ndio alipeleka mtoto huko, yeye anataka kumpeleka a cheaper school.
Anyway, what I find interesting about the school is that it’s just a basic building with barely any space to call a playground. Alafu on top of fees those kids are asked to take all manner of things to school once in a while for CBC, plus kuitishwa small monies for various useless “projects.” Alafu teachers are paid peanuts buana, they survive by asking for handouts from parents. Lakini the owner/director drives a German machine.
25k per month inclusive of tuition, lunch, books is actually a very good deal. I was expecting it to cost 250k per month which would still be reasonable because of inflation. Children are expensive.
Kenyans are not united. If we could get together and improve the learning conditions in our public schools, hii ummeffi ya kulipa premium fee for mediocre services haingekuwa
This idiocy started in the 90s when parents thought that their children were too good for public schools. They wanted their kids in private primary schools but would then head to public high schools for obvious reasons.
Entrepreneurs immediately knew where to hit parents and they did! While it may appear “cool” to say “my son goes to Riara School”, your average “middle class” parent shits bricks every time they have to pay fees.
And the exploiteshen shall continue…
Ukweli mtupu. I saw one who used to teach in a private school at Githurai. I discovered that he was a ndombolo dancer with one of the many congolaise bands at a certain nightclub in Nairobi Eastland
This is actually a very cheap school…utapata wako na walimu wenye wako na chida ya matamshi. But i agree with you…this is one area Ruto needs to look into, we might dismiss it but in the end, say in 30years time, the rascals from these schools will grab all public and private opportunities through their own and parents networks similar to what has happened in south Africa though stellenbosch then Wits alumni…hata hapa Kenya we were once under a firm grip of Alliance, then Mang’u kiasi and St Mary’s.
Your analysis is very wrong. Public schooling was okay until 2002 when the govt introduced free and compulsory primary education. In typical bonobo style, the govt didn’t expand facilities and neither were additional teachers and support staff added. The sudden influx overwhelmed the available facilities in public schools leading to quality issues. Hapo ndio shule binafai zikaanza kuchipuka.
Two things can be right at the same time. Just check back when many small private schools started mushrooming everywhere and you’ll have the 90s on focus. The private school sector couldn’t have started flourishing in the 90s if the public school sector was okay. Kibaki just made it worse for reasons you have mentioned. And that’s when the small ones upped their game and started the ridiculous things they are currently doing because they were sure parents had fewer proper options.
Applies with universities as well. If Kibaki built new ones and tamed the wild expansion of existing ones instead of giving charter to already existing tertiary institutions like polytechnics and technical institutes to make them fully-fledged unis, universities wouldn’t be limping the way they currently are. At some point we were just waiting for nursery and primary schools to be turned into universities…
Juzi nimeenda base flani Philadelphia house opposite Afya Centre kuuliza wanalipisha how much ku teach French.Jilipigwa na shock ya quotation ya 180k.Place is owned by a French Prof who teaches at KU but ameandika hao hao Congolese refugees akiwalipa 10k per month