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tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born  People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. Brings us again to the question: do these Riara and Makini type schools really help? Why should one take their child to Riara and not a public school or smaller private?
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Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. By the way ulitoka land of Mapombe? You had plans to go to land of milk and honey  nimejaribu green card, bado sijapata bahati
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Lolest! wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. Brings us again to the question: do these Riara and Makini type schools really help? Why should one take their child to Riara and not a public school or smaller private? @Ngogoyo you are not condescending nothing wrong with putting across your opinions. @tafutabiz that is an interesting point, with the proposed change to the education system things might be different. I think if you find yourself dragging your kid across town to a school, then its either you are living in the wrong hood, or you are taking your kid to the wrong school. do the 'elite' schools help, academically I don't think so, I think its more of an ego/prestige thing for the parents, I see smaller private schools around estates drilling kids proper and getting good grades from them.
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:Lolest! wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. Brings us again to the question: do these Riara and Makini type schools really help? Why should one take their child to Riara and not a public school or smaller private? @Ngogoyo you are not condescending nothing wrong with putting across your opinions. @tafutabiz that is an interesting point, with the proposed change to the education system things might be different. I think if you find yourself dragging your kid across town to a school, then its either you are living in the wrong hood, or you are taking your kid to the wrong school. do the 'elite' schools help, academically I don't think so, I think its more of an ego/prestige thing for the parents, I see smaller private schools around estates drilling kids proper and getting good grades from them. True. The top kids in national exams are never from those elite schools. It's a lifestyle thing where parents pay through the nose to ensure that their kids have a 5 star experience when studying - eg field trips to Paris, Disney, Buckingham palace etc. They use those extra curricula activities to justify the exorbitant fees since they can't compete on academics.
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hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. Torture galore, i was infuriated on Friday 6th Jan when i saw a young primary school kid at 5 am in the morning escorted by the parent hapa pande ya Wangige.I would never do that to my son. Divers - can you laugh in scuba gear, or will you drown? I was wondering. - James May.
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tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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sitaki.kujulikana wrote:Lolest! wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. Brings us again to the question: do these Riara and Makini type schools really help? Why should one take their child to Riara and not a public school or smaller private? @Ngogoyo you are not condescending nothing wrong with putting across your opinions. @tafutabiz that is an interesting point, with the proposed change to the education system things might be different. I think if you find yourself dragging your kid across town to a school, then its either you are living in the wrong hood, or you are taking your kid to the wrong school. do the 'elite' schools help, academically I don't think so, I think its more of an ego/prestige thing for the parents, I see smaller private schools around estates drilling kids proper and getting good grades from them. You have hit the nail on the head! More often than not, it is all about the parents ego. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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Lanes lanes my friends  My lane inaweza aford max 50k per term and i hear juja Preparatory is about 70k per term thats the other lane  Juja is not far (13kms) and i drive to Nai daily from thika so can drop him then school bus drop him back jioni....that is if i will afford He currently wakes at 6.00am and leaves for school at 6.45 and by 7am he is at a neighbouring school. That time is veeery ideal for me. It's just that i want to stick to that timing but better school with more infrastructure like music instruments and all...he likes music and i can't manage to reach him. I also want where teacher:child ratio is favourable for actual follow up by the teacher. But we all agree taking a kid far from home daily is torture..taking a kid to expensive to massage your ego is idiotic as well...but there has to be a middle ground that will ensure no maembe child and no 'joho' kind child (my apologies to his fans
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Ngogoyo wrote:Lanes lanes my friends My lane inaweza aford max 50k per term and i hear juja Preparatory is about 70k per term thats the other lane Juja is not far (13kms) and i drive to Nai daily from thika so can drop him then school bus drop him back jioni....that is if i will afford He currently wakes at 6.00am and leaves for school at 6.45 and by 7am he is at a neighbouring school. That time is veeery ideal for me. It's just that i want to stick to that timing but better school with more infrastructure like music instruments and all...he likes music and i can't manage to reach him. I also want where teacher:child ratio is favourable for actual follow up by the teacher. But we all agree taking a kid far from home daily is torture..taking a kid to expensive to massage your ego is idiotic as well...but there has to be a middle ground that will ensure no maembe child and no 'joho' kind child (my apologies to his fans Thika Memorial Glorious Fountain St Peters Juja Moi Primary(Public/private) The above schools come highly recommended for a young chaod who does not need to go far from home. Love is beautiful and so are those who share it.With Love, Marriage is an amazing event in ones life time, the foundation of joy, happiness and success.
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MaichBlack wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). i low iq father siring a low iq daughter and then blaming schools for the low iq. who would have thought about that?
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MaichBlack wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). kama mtoto ni maembe atakua tu maembe whether you take her/him to public or private school kama ni bright kama swenani, she/he will be bright whether you take her/him to school or not.ouu can't just sya all kids who go to private schools are maembe If Obiero did it, Who Am I?
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mkenyan wrote:MaichBlack wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). i low iq father siring a low iq daughter and then blaming schools for the low iq. who would have thought about that? It is not low IQ. It is environment. She was okay at Mount Kenya Academy and she is okay at Kianda School. Your "high IQ" would have helped you note she got admitted to a National School!!!But because you felt you had to say something and there is freedom of speech, then I will let you have your say. Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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Swenani wrote:MaichBlack wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). kama mtoto ni maembe atakua tu maembe whether you take her/him to public or private school kama ni bright kama swenani, she/he will be bright whether you take her/him to school or not.ouu can't just sya all kids who go to private schools are maembe @Swenani 1) I did not say all private school. See my earlier thread where I told someone not to confuse private schools and high cost schools. 2) By maembe, I don't mean academic performance only. There are people who get good marks in class but are still maembe! One might have the grades but he/she cannot do anything for himself/herself unless his/her dad gets them a job. Hiyo bado ni malenge! Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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There are people who are of the thought that those Braeburn type schools make the child be more confident and exposed to a better world view The networks also are another thing. That the kid will grow up knowing the 'right' kind of people. An example that will be oft floated is Bruce Odhiambo. He schooled with Uhuru at St Mary's Anyway, I'm still not for this type of schools
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Lolest! wrote:There are people who are of the thought that those Braeburn type schools make the child be more confident and exposed to a better world view
The networks also are another thing. That the kid will grow up knowing the 'right' kind of people.
An example that will be oft floated is Bruce Odhiambo. He schooled with Uhuru at St Mary's
Anyway, I'm still not for this type of schools
Never mind that the jamaa was always late for class using a bus from eastlands,ie till someone gave him a motorbike.
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MaichBlack wrote:mkenyan wrote:MaichBlack wrote:tafutabiz wrote:hardwood wrote:Ngogoyo wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:a class one kid commuting from thika to juja si ni child abuse, why not just take the kid to the nearest school, hata ka si poa, you would rather spend the extra cash on a private teacher at home. Boss, not to sound condescending, i can bet you don't have kids and neither do you understand the current education system. Some people book schools in Nairobi when a child is born People drive from Kitengela to drop their children at Makini & Riara ngong road so Juja is a stone throw from Thika town....actually some here at Wazua used to walk those distances in rural primary schools If you don't secure a good background when a child is in lower primary, don't think you will move him from Gachororo primary to St Andrews Turi when he is in Std 7 or something...he won't cope and basics wills seem advanced to him. Yes am also thinking of a teacher at home but for a std 1 child that's too much education overload...i prefer afanye homework then outdoor play after school. but will review as time goes This is torture. Waking a class 1 kid at 4am so that he can prepare to go to school 40km away. Then the morning and evening jam. The parents should just move to a place near the school for the sake of the kid's well being. I support @sitaki that a kid in lower primary should go to a school that's near the home. I agree too, this habit by the middle-crass(mostly) of traversing the city taking a kindergarten child or even a lower primary kid to another town is not fair to the pupil. I know of a Juja preparatory child now in University that is unable to cope with the system! I used to teach in an international school where the rich kids' schools are just a stone through away from their homes. The very rich will not spend hours in traffic taking children to/from school. Just look for some school with good infrastructure in the neighborhood.Dr. Matiang'i has disrupted the system, whatever you call good school might not be after-all. I just warned in an earlier post that if you take your kid to such schools, he/she will become maembe - in all aspects including emotionally. Unless you are planning to take them to a maembe university and get them a maembe job and make sure they live a maembe life for the rest of their lives, think very carefully!!! A friend of mine took his daughter to Mount Kenya Academy. She passed and was admitted to Mary Hill - a National School. She couldn't survive!!! She barely made it through form one and had to be transferred to Kianda School! Why? Number one, the teachers at Mary Hill don't sugar coat stuff. They tell you as it is e.g. "You are just a joker, why didn't you do x, y, z? At this late I don't see you going far. You will definitely fail....". That is enough to make daddy's girl go into depression! At Mount Kenya Academy she was used to being told to "go and reflect" when she did something wrong bla bla bla. Number two. Students at Mary Hill are chap chap. And the teachers know this. You don't spoon feed too much. Explain a concept, give an example and move on. Whatever the student didn't get, they know why there is a library. Mount Kenya was different - the teacher insisting "Miss xyz, did you understand? Are you sure? Can we go through another example together...". Number three. There is no walking in Mary Hill. Run, run, run. To the young lady, that is what Syria must be like. Number Four. The students at Mary Hill will make fun of you if you gave a funny answer in class or you were unable to explain a simple concept. Problem is that daddy's girl thinks that the world rotates around her and being made fun of is enough to make her want to go home there and then. Long story short. Girl had to be transferred and daddy has vowed not to take any of his other kids to "those schools" (the likes of Mount Kenya Academy). i low iq father siring a low iq daughter and then blaming schools for the low iq. who would have thought about that? It is not low IQ. It is environment. She was okay at Mount Kenya Academy and she is okay at Kianda School. Your "high IQ" would have helped you note she got admitted to a National School!!!But because you felt you had to say something and there is freedom of speech, then I will let you have your say. sorry about the maembe 'friend of yours'. seems like the pre-matiangi results didn't help 'him' much.
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