Children in class in Kenya
By: Joseph Kamau Kiragu
All those pupils, both at the primary and secondary level who were not participating in national examinations, are still home. They are expected to be at home for a seven-week break since the first term of the 2022 academic calendar is scheduled to kick off on April 27 and end in December 2022. Parents and teachers can push pupils to engage in holiday tuition because the seven-week break is long and because after opening, the academic calendar seems to be short. Parents and teachers should know that engaging their pupils in holiday tuition is illegal. According to section 37 of The Basic Education Act, holding holiday tuition is prohibited.
Unfortunately, even after the government banned holiday tuition through the Ministry of Education, some school headteachers normally turn a deaf year on this. Some of them try to conduct the tuition outside the classes. They should know that holding holiday tuition violates the law, which can lead to fines and imprisonment. It is worth noting the Outbreak of COVID 19 outbreak in our nation heavily disrupted our normal academic calendar. This disruption has been pressurizing our learners and overloading them with classwork in one way or another. The disruption also contributed tong school terms which have been acting as a burden to our students to the extent that students reached a point and started complaining that the curriculum had become bound to them. Therefore, parents and teachers should allow the students to relax and ease their pressure.
Notably, we are now in a new education system: Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC). This system is much based on the needs and potential of learners. From this, it entails that if learners can be given this holiday without being distracted by tuition, they can have ample time to learn other basic skills outside those they learn in the class. The period can also enable them to participate in co-curricular activities. Parents and guardians can also take this opportunity by spending their time with their students and teaching them more on different essential skills, discipline, values, and necessary norms of the society.Holiday tuition denies our students a chance to interact with their parents and guardians and denies them to expand their basic skills; hence should not be tolerated. The government, through the Ministry of Education, should ensure it works closely with the county government directors to ensure no learning institution conducts tuition. We also hope that the government will manage to cover the curriculum fully after the opening of schools.
From Maasai Mara University
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