President William Ruto will announce in December whether the pioneer CBC class would continue on to junior secondary school or to the following grade in their individual primary schools, according to Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu.
“Transition of Grade Six students to junior secondary schools is one of the issues we are working on, and I am confident that the presidential working party will be able to offer his excellency an initial report even though their term of reference is six months.
The tests will begin on November 28 and a significant declaration will be made about it in December, either when I release the results of the Grade 6 examinations or earlier when His Excellency the President has learned what the wishes of Kenyans are and makes a statement, according to the CS.
On Friday, Mr. Machogu addressed the public at a gathering organized by the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, which was chaired by Rev. Prof. Stephen Mbugua of the Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA).
The taskforce, which the President appointed and is made up of educators, is looking for Kenyans’ opinions on the changes they would want to see the government undertake to strengthen the educational system.
Parents’ worries about whether their children will be admitted to secondary schools are growing, and they are criticizing the Education Ministry for not taking a firm position.
The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education (KUPPET), one of the education stakeholders, has been pleading with the government to keep the students at their existing institutions even after they have taken the national exams.
“As KUPPET, we support having what we refer to as Intermediate One and Intermediate Two. This means that after taking the Grade Six exam, pupils continue on to Grades Seven and Eight as junior secondary students in their existing schools before transferring to high school for Grades Eight and Nine after two years.
In the CBC educational system, parents have transformed into students, doing homework assignments and other responsibilities that belong to their kids. It becomes challenging to discover students’ skills in accordance with CBC aims when parents are converted into learners on behalf of their kids.
