Sitting for KCPE exams
By: Fenny Oyare
Worth Noting:
- Sometimes even your own parent wondered loudly why they were wasting their resources to educate a non- performer but those sentiments did not make you give up.
- It doesn’t matter how well you performed in sports, it doesn’t count how well you sung in music neither does it matter how well you could act in drama or be a good leader; they will only focus on exams.
- That is why that antisocial pupil who did not interact with others, could not play any game, wasn’t a leader and was ill mannered is celebrated because they performed well in class.
Let me start by congratulating you.
Even though the world has decided to label you a failure, I personally think you deserve a better title than that.
You have struggled for several years to reach that level and do KCPE.
Failures are those who quit without valid reasons before reaching the apex of primary school.
I understand education in primary is tough.
You braved cold weather in the morning to wake up early and go to school.
You endured harsh teachers for all those years who caned you even though you knew it was illegal.
I believe at one point some pupils laughed at you and called you names yet you still held on.
Sometimes even your own parent wondered loudly why they were wasting their resources to educate a non- performer but those sentiments did not make you give up.
Congratulations once more.
ndeed you are a hero and deserve to be called so.
You will be an owner of a certificate whereas there is a multitude of people with no academic certificates.
Education system in Kenya is quite biased.
You will be ranked only based on academic work.
It doesn’t matter how well you performed in sports, it doesn’t count how well you sung in music neither does it matter how well you could act in drama or be a good leader; they will only focus on exams.
That is why that antisocial pupil who did not interact with others, could not play any game, wasn’t a leader and was ill mannered is celebrated because they performed well in class.
That is Kenya my little friend.
It is preparing you for bigger challenges in future.
Failing in exams is not the end of life.
I have experience both in the worlds of failing and passing.
I have performed and been ranked among the best.
I have also underperformed and stayed in academic limbo.
So I understand both worlds quite well.
You can still make good use of your life.
Your age alone should at least encourage you.
You are yet to know the meaning of life.
Success is not going to good secondary school, joining university and pursuing medicine or law or those big courses.
No! Success is attaining your goals and dying a better person than you were born.
If you are able to change any aspect of the world (including your own life) positively, then you are not a failure.
There are many options still left.
If you failed by mistake, you can go back to school, repeat class eight or even start from class seven, excel and join secondary school of your dream (after all education is free) .
If your specialty is not education, you can venture in other areas.
Join the village polytechnic and learn carpentry.
Make nice furniture and start a workshop.
Those pupils who excelled will purchase your items in future.
You can be a mechanic too.
With a big garage, those academicians will need your services.
They may do mechanical engineering but unable to carry out simple repairs in their cars.
Other courses like plumbing, wiring and welding do not require 400 marks to do but will equally pay well.
When those bright pupils will have graduated in nine years, they will be crying of unemployment as you enjoy money from your craft.
Do not be surprised if you end up employing some of them.
The world has refused to know why you performed poorly.
They have not known you slept hungry before doing exams, they don’t know your mother is bedridden and you had to divide your attention between school work and taking care of her.
They don’t want to know you walked for ten kilometers to go to school with no classrooms and three teachers only.
Kindly understand that is life.
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