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Schools Re Open In The Middle Of Disrupted School Calendar

SK 2 years ago 2 min read

Today (Thursday), following a two-week hiatus for the General Election held on August 9th, schools across the nation are scheduled to reopen.

Concerns about the interruption of the school calendar for this term continue even as classes start. Education Cabinet Secretary (CS) Prof. George Magoha reiterated on Wednesday that the class timetable would not be extended to allow students to make up time lost during the elections.

If the Supreme Court orders a rerun of the presidential elections after Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate for the Azimio la Umoja alliance, announced his intention to appeal the election results, the program would be further impacted.

Currently, the 10 week long current school year is anticipated to expire on September 16,2022

Schools will need to make the necessary adjustments to ensure that students who will take the national examinations in November have finished the required coursework before the assessments arrive, according to Magoha.

Additionally, he emphasized that even if the Supreme Court decrees a new round of presidential voting, no schools will be closed.

In spite of the fact that there were a lot of students returning to school on Tuesday morning, many were left stranded due to a lack of public transportation (PSVs).

The PSV operators have also considerably increased the cost of transportation, which has increased delays even more.

Stakeholders in the education sector have since urged CS Magoha to extend the school term to allow learners to come to speed with the academic syllabus.

“We have 1.3 million in primary school in class eight, we have close to 900,000 in Form 4 who will sit for exams this month. It is important that we plan for an extension so that we have these children covering the content that they ought to cover in schools even if they are not sitting for exams,” Dr. Emmanuel Manyasa, Executive Director Usawa Agenda said

“This term was only 10 weeks, three weeks have been lost. We are going to destroy a whole generation. We must allow these children to cover the content so that extension must come.”