Njore wrote:Good people. You need to appreciate the fact that the government is working extremely hard to achieve the goal of Education for All (EFA). Today we have 26,666 primary and 6,566 secondary schools. This is no mean achievement compared to five years ago when we had about 4,000 secondary schools. The principle of access and equity is critical. Let us acknowledge the fact that the government is doing a commendable job to address perennial gaps in our education sector. Left unchecked, a child from a poor family will continue to get sidelined and disadvantaged for life. The fact that the government cannot solely afford to provide education opportunities to its citizenry does not warrant private provider to dictate terms. The only fair logic is to apply a formula (using ratios & proportions) to accommodate all our children. When we start comparing our education system with those in Japan and South Korea, we miss the point. These are two different worlds that are totally incompatible.
It is because of the government's unwillingness to provide quality educations to its citizenry that private schools have come up. Now, instead of rewarding these private schools and parents who take their children to private schools, we punish them by saying that the "private provider is dictating terms." Are we really serious?
The government is not unable, it is simply Unwilling. A good case in point is the drug trade in Mombasa. How many times did we hear of the story that the government was unable to fight the drug trade? Now, after Kibaki got angry,hard drugs have suddenly become something too hot to handle. Did the government increase its budgetary allocation to fighting drugs? I doubt.
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