Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has issued directions to school heads regarding unruly students.
This comes as schools prepare for reopening for the final term of the academic year on January 3, 2022.
Speaking in Mombasa on Monday, December 27, Magoha asked teachers to ensure notorious students are kept off school premises.
“The renegade children who want to go home to rest, we shall allow them. If there is a child who doesn’t want to go to school and wants to go and rest with his parents, to take exams from home, let him go, rather than destroy the infrastructure,because its very ridiculous for a child because you want everyone to suffer therefore you burn the school and everyone suffers we are going to be extremely vigilant,” CS Magoha said.
Magoha was in Mombasa for a breaking ground ceremony for the construction of two classrooms at the Mombasa secondary school for the physically handicapped as well as inspection of the construction of a new state-of-the-art Mama Ngina Girls National secondary school in Shanzu, Nyali sub county.
He further said that the ministry had disbursed funds to schools for the third term and no student should be sent home because of school fees.
“No Kenyan child should be out of school because of fees in new year, the government will ensure money is there by that time by January.
“So this parent does not want the child to go to school let him keep the child at home. Because we have told heads that if it is a genuine case then let them take what the parent has brought to school and agree how the rest will be paid,” Magoha said.
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