Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has been asked to make it clear on the school’s grade six learners will be joining in January 2023.
Under the current education system – Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), the grade 6 learners will be proceeding to junior secondary schools next year.
However, Uasin Gishu Governor Jonathan Bii Chelilim says as things stand now, parents are confused about whether their children will remain in the primary schools they are in, or will be required to look for a secondary school to join.
The county boss is now asking the new Education CS to make things straight on the issue.
“We want the Education CS to tell us what we will do with our children who are supposed to join junior secondary school. Where will they learn and how has the government planned for the transition,” Chelilim said.
He points out that the new system has brought confusion amongst parents that need to be addressed as early as possible.
The grade six learners are expected to sit for the national examination that will be used to place them in junior secondary.
CBC classrooms
Over the last few months, the government has been constructing CBC classrooms that will be used to host junior secondary schools.
Some of the classrooms are in primary schools and others are in secondary schools.
A number of private schools have also been selected to host the junior secondary school.
The CBC transition is part of the issues that the recently formed Education reforms task force is expected to address.
President William Ruto, when he spoke during his inauguration on September 13, 2022, assured parents that the transition issue will be resolved before January 2023.
Already a 42-member team, led by Prof. Raphael Munavu has been going around the country collecting views from the public concerning the current education system.
The team will be in Eldoret town on November 11, 2022, and governor Chelilim wants members of the public to come out in large numbers and give their views.
“Let us all come and give our views about the education system because previously we were not given that opportunity,” he said.
The government rolled out CBC in 2018 with the first cohort expected to join junior secondary schools in January 2023.
The system has however faced criticisms from different stakeholders among them parents who claim it is too expensive.
