… unapata shule ikona jina kubwa sana; PUBLIC primary school.
These young learners, seated on stones in a classroom without desks or chairs, will soon sit the same national exams as pupils in well-equipped schools. Hata pastor ataitwa kuwaongoza kwa maombi.
The competition is the same, but the starting points couldn’t be more different.
Hawa sidhani wanajua English walai…
Na nchi daily ni siasa, baba this baba that, ruto this ruto that, gachagua said, gachagu said…
Kujenga shule ni kazi ya nani hasa, MCA? MP? Governor ama serkal…?
I wish kasongo had renamed housing levy to Amenities levy fund. Funds dedicated to build schools, hospitals, water storage, connect homes with electricity for free. Hata ukikatwa salo unajua it’s for a good cause
This is precisely why those in public schools get a slight boost in national exams, there’s a funny term they use to justify it. Sijui equilization or whatever
Tuanze na sheria. Kama bail ya makosa fulani ni 1M, what does that mean? Mwenye hana 1M anaozea jela na mwenye ako nayo anatoka the same day. Ni the same thing as having those poor kids sitting for the same national examination na mtu ako Strathmore.
The unequal playing fields exist everywhere. Hata kusaka job mtoto wa peasant si ata-tarmac hadi viatu zitoe moshi. Meanwhile mtoto wa sonko will just join one of his dad’s/uncle’s companies at a junior management level and progress from there. Hii kwanza ni common na wahindi penye unapata a hotel owner’s son straight out of college anaingia job akiwa senior manager at one of the dad’s hotels etc.
Watu hawajui ama they choose to ignore the painful fact that being poor is a deadly sin. Millions of people have died due to lack of treatment, or rotted in prison simply because they were poor.
Hata wewe you were disadvantaged by the mere fact that you were born in Kenya and not in a wealthy country like Switzerland or Australia. After all, the leading predictor of whether you will succeed in life (financially) is the jurisdiction you were born in.
