Dear Ruto, Please Stop CBC Roll Out (copied)

Meria

Meria

Elder Lister
Staff member
Congratulations on your win Dr William Samoei Ruto.

This is an opinion piece for all Kenyan parents suffering from a slave-making education.

Broadly, there was nothing wrong with 8-4-4, the bone of contention heavily weighing on that system was its examination ways.

The examination had become the only thing that most schools used archaic and sometimes unscrupulous ways to achieve the top marks.

It was a thing that the end justified the means. Which was wrong.

The economy is dilapidated.

Parents are overburdened by the needs of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC).

“The conversation we want to have is, we are now five years into CBC. UNESCO guidelines give us the latitude that every five years we have to review the education curriculum and this is the moment we have had concerns from parents, teachers, various stakeholders…This discussion is going to be largely about how do we achieve universal access; how do we make sure our education is relevant so that we can use it to tackle the challenges of our time, how do we make our education much more affordable for the majority and how do we get quality education where we don’t have half-baked people,” President William Ruto on CBC on 23rd June 2022
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It needs to stop.

You have been elected on the platform of bottom up. On the premise that anyone can come from any background and achieve much.

CBC, as per analysts, is not a curriculum that endows anyone with this. It does the opposite.

We need 8-4-4 back but without that cut-throat unnecessary examination that is KCPE and KCSE. There should be a new way to gauge who rolls on to the next stage.

Below, are some articles we wrote analysing why CBC is bad.

  1. We should stop making slaves, we need thinkers.
  2. Burden to parents
  3. ‘CBC is not the education that the children of Kenya deserve’, Dr. Wandia Njoya
 
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nakujua

Lister
Just wish his administration does away with the junior secondary thing, whether CBC or 844, Wacha watoto wafike class 8. Then focus on equally funding schools and do away with the categorization of secondary schools.
Exam competition is due to the limited decent secondary school with proper resources, if all public schools are standardized in terms of resources then we won't even need a change in curriculum, at least not in the way it's being done with CBC.
 
bigDog

bigDog

Elder Lister
What is the possibility of reducing the cost of this carriculum? For example, why do books need to be single use? The traditional family setting has changed. Many low income parents have to work long hours or have a long commute. Did the carriculum designers take parental availability into consideration?

As far as content is concerned, I'm not expert. Waalimu, how does the content differ? What is the difference in skills acquired between 8-4-4 and competency based carricula?
 
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bigDog

bigDog

Elder Lister
Aviator said:
Sisi wenye tuko na watoto grade 6 at the moment, do we circumcise them in Dec or do we wait till they get to grade 9?
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Most of them will be pre-puberty at around 12 years old. Thats too young! Let them be children. Who knows, wazee might consider pushing that ceremony until they clear junior high school.
 
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