Dear Son of Kenyatta,

1.You promised our kids laptops.Not only has this project failed, but you are denying kenyan kids the right to education as well.What crime have they committed? Do they pay taxes? The project is still on course, will be implemented by the ICT ministry

2. Boarding schools especially budget for school terms well in advance by buying food in bulk.Please do tell where ALL the food lying in school stores bought by parent's school fees will go to. Do they buy perishable food at the beginning of the term...mbosho, na maize can last to next year

3. So our kids will stay at home throughout 3rd term?Will they also repeat classes next year? No schooling means no studies,no exams or promotion to next class. What is your plan? Study in Dec to make up for lost term or disorganize the entire 2015 school calendar?Do you really care? You have not been told your child will remain at home till the end of the year. Go read that memo again after you've cooled off your nerves

4. Most parents take loans to pay school fees.
Please tell us, is it fair to continue servicing bank loans for school fees plus interest, whose purpose is lost? Again, from the memo, the issue of fees has been addressed

5.Are parents entitled to refunds for fees? My guess is no because it's all goverments fault.Suppliers of schools services must/have been paid. Again, from the memo, the issue of fees has been addressed

5. So teachers are on strike,school workers stay at home with no income whatsoever,so how does that improve our economy? You want them to steal? The cook, watchman etc is cooking for class 8 and form 4 students, they are still at work

6. What will millions of school kids be doing at home all this time when their agemates across the world are studying? Sex/TV/Drugs/Parties/Child labour/kuchapwa na DM.Its 3rd term rem. Is this part of vision 2030? producing hooligans? It is not the work of the teacher to keep your child from all those vices you've mentioned there. Get involved in educating your child. In other parts of the world, homeschooling is the in-thing

7. And before I forget,Brookside milk is drank in many schools across the country, so rest knowing that it's a loss to you too and a farmer somewhere is crying and cursing from top of mt.ihururu. Those students who drink milk at sch can also drink it at home, in larger quantities...they are not dead are they?

8. I heard a chairman of a schools association complain about PTA teachers and their pay. Don't know how it works but this strike has hit bad. PTA teachers are paid by the BOG. The decision of whether or how much they are to be paid lies with that board

9. I was reminded today by a ugandan that a similar strike caused mass exodus of Kenyan kids to schools in Uganda. Please I beg,Stop cheapening/diluting our education system.We are losing face as Kenyans. Teachers in Kenya are paid waaay better than those in Uganda or if you like Tanzania. Paying a teacher does not make the education system more "expensive" or superior, if you want quality education, you should be pushing for performance contracts from these teachers who want pay but no evaluation

10.. The epilogue- WE PAY TAXES. We pay to learn and serve in Kenya. It's our right to demand please act accordingly. About 40% of the adult Kenyan pays taxes, half of those pay a negligible amount that cannot even pay one teachers salary in a year. Half of the other half is protected somehow by the tax code. The rest 60% are dependents of the system. Corporations don't care much about the salaries, to them the taxes they emit should go towards providing the infrastructure that will enhance their growth

Naomba kwa niaba ya wazazi,sinyakali irudi back to the drawing board and put their selfish interests aside.
If not God will force us to.Don't wait for his hand to act. The money is simply not there. Maybe you should be asking yourself how much more in taxes are you willing to folk out.

Yours frustrated citizen,

Mzazi for education.

Check again. That would not be entirely true if the salaries dont hit the 30% taxation band

This is the last strike in this country, dawa imepatikana!