INCOMPETENCY  BASED CARRICULUM.


Yesterday on my way home, I met two women who were "beating ambaka" on their way home from a beauty parlour.


"Min Jimmy, imagine nowadays my son Ryan can't speak Dholuo, he only speaks English with a little Swahili in it. Aki that school is great"  said the first lady.

The other one retorted "Even Ryan is the same, aki this CBC thing is the best. Nyathi mar PP1 wuoyo kisungu mamit,"

From the conversation, I deduced that they were bragging about their kids' prowess in the queen's language.
To them, a kid who speaks their mother tongue is a failure.
Them praising CBC just because small kids can speak English was so funny to me.

Then I remembered my school days when we started speaking English in class six, broken English to be exact.

You see, CBC is a good thing only if we have the necessary infrastructure.
How will a kid in Isiolo, who dreams to be become a swimmer develop the talent?
Imagine a small kid in Busia with the hopes of developing digital literacy , how will they do it ?
We would rather have the STEM system [ science, technology, engineering, mathematics] used by the Chinese because it teaches kids how to be independent.

We copied and pasted from the Western countries without benchmarking or ensuring that we have all it takes to implement the curriculum.

Junior secondary schools have four teachers teaching 11 subjects. How's that possible a?
This is the curriculum that is going to produce a lot of "English-speaking stupid citizens" instead of competent citizens who can adapt to the situation.

These things called homework are becoming a nuisance to parents.
It's just a competition between parents because if I teach my kid whatever exercise is given and he underperforms, that's me failing.
I still think the 8-4-4 system was the best curriculum compared to this CBC thing. Parents were never under pressure to tutor their kids or buy some funny things as demanded by the teachers. 
My neighbour in the village was complaining that the teacher to his son asked him for sungura. 

Close to 80% of schools in Kenya are not ready for this CBC thing which i think is plot by the rich to ensure only few students graduate hence reducing job competition in sectors where ''cool kids'' prefer

Other parents also come home late only to be asked about "sound kwe or q whatever".

What we needed to see in the new curriculum was kids being taught basic things like courtesy, agriculture and even the Constitution.

Private schools have capitalized on using English prowess as the basis of "eating" school fees.

We pay so much money to eliminate our identity from our kids, which is the mother tongue.

Kenya has a lot of languages but if I went to Garrissa and spoke Luo, they would ask me kama Mimi ni mtu ya Nyanza region. Your language is your identity.

In as much as the world is changing, we should not let it change who we are.
Remember, money will never buy intelligence.

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