Hi @chirascuro. Not to to scare you but I have just read a very traumatising story about maseno on an FB group( buyer beware Kenya).

An orphan under the equity foundation is in hospital after being sodomozed by three senior boys. Sadly school went flat out to cover up.

Reading through comments on the FB post, upper Hill, lenana and Nairobi school have been mentioned severally as places where the vice is prevalent.

Sorry for late reply. Yes I have had two of my relatives go thro the school. One completed way back and has since graduated from UoN. During my visitations and guardian's interaction with teachers, I would carry my family to the school. We got so impressed, and that influenced my son to pick it as first choice. He is in Form Four currently and so far I am not complaining.
In short it's a good school.

I think I showed two times only in my first term in Form One.

@hardwood: after reading the horror stories of torture at Alliance in today's Nation, do you now understand why some one would genuinely ask if Alliance is a good school?

Clearly it is NOT good!

Many parents think that National schools produce good exam results because they teach well. That is simply NOT TRUE. What do you expect when you bring together the brightest children in the country in one school?

National schools do not teach any better than the rest: they just have bright students.

Many years ago, I attended A-Levels at a "Top National School". For the whole of form 5, we had not chemistry teacher. The form 6 class ahead of us had no math teacher at form 5.

We learned these subjects on our own and still managed to score As and Bs in KACE. And I can assure you that there was absolutely NO CHEATING!

My son at Nairobi School tells me there is bullying but not to the extent of Alliance. Some seniors (form 3s & 4s) robbed him of some money at the canteen. Another one robbed his spoon at the dining hall.

In this school, I get the feeling that there is a lot of animosity between all classes: f4 hates f3; f3 hates f2 and f2 hates f1. There was a big fight between f4 & f3 last month. The police were even called in to quell the violence. 20 boys were suspended.

A senior KDF officer removed his son from the school after the boy was beaten badly by form fours. he had to be admitted at hospital.

Apart from the psychological pain of leaving in fear, my son has been safe physically.

This is not a healthy environment for learning and it mus be STOPPED! In our days, bullying was only the preserve of form twos. F3 and above would never do it - it was deemed childish! Today, everybody is doing it and is viewed as a heroic act!

It is SHAMEFUL that prefects are allowed to mete out corporal punishment while teachers are barred from doing by the law. It appears that authority was transferred from the teachers and given to the prefects.

Revisiting How is your boy fairing on?
What ails this school?