@Tycho thanks. @Ngalaka have you ever been abroad in non English speaking country? You try communicate in English and they ask you to speak your own language? Been in such scenario in Germany, Italy and Russia. Where is your pride?

Secondly, pride boss.....in our "Africaness" if not anything else. Why not make it the language of instruction for all subjects?

Now I know what Ngugi meant by urging in Decolonizing the Mind by reloading at our African languages. Kiswahili (not Swahili) is at the par with the so called international languages.

We have our "own" languages bwana - 42 of them. We speak them better than any other language we learnt in school - be it English or Swahili.

Tanzania has taken the route you suggest for us. where has it left them and their education system.
The number of Kenyan expatriates there tells it all.

@Ngalaka unless you have some beef with Kiswahili versus our 42.... Tanzania has a better more stable economy than ours. They are more politically stable than any country in the region. All courtesy to Kiswahili. All else is slowly falling in place and like Ethiopia well be left nyuma sana. BTW Ahmaric is spoken all over Ethiopia and it's not foreign.....schooling is in Ahmaric there

I bet people in hindsight could come up with subjects they think were a waste of time and should be done away with.

But remember education is for Children and not for grown ups, allow the children to explore every subject and later judge their usefulness for themselves.

Ironically, if you were to apply just sheer numbers, more Kenyans in life could argue that Kiswahili is of more use than English for their day to day lives, careers and livelihoods. I am talking about people in the informal sector, businessmen, farmers, traders, matatu sector folks, mama mboga's.

Thats the Kenyan population and not someone who wants to carry out "international commerce". Besides, we are net importers, let the international traders looking to sell us stuff learn to communicate with us, the Chinese don't speak English but seem to have done this very well selling us everything from toilet paper to SGR

While at it, lets also unburden them by teaching maths to class 3 or 6 or upto where calculus checks in. How in the world does calculus help anyone other than it making maths difficult and ridiculous. (many people could argue for this, yet I am sure there's a good reason why its taught)