Most KNUT members are primary school teachers. So you reduce number of primary sch teachers you reduce membership.

But can we focus on the more substantive matter at hand. Separating entire generations of kids from parents at age 11 to join secondary, is it good for the nation?

If they are scrapping national exams, then what is the criteria for admission to national schools like Alliance and who will go to provincial schools?

Then teachers, especially head-teachers are about to become very wealthy. Parents will bribe teachers to award students extra points. Students will be getting points for doing extra work, sweeping the floor, knitting a good sweater, carrying the teachers' bag, washing the teacher's car etc etc. There is no objective criteria for awarding points.

Due to lack of objective criteria, there will be fisticuffs between broke parents who can't afford to bribe and teachers.

Private schools will especially become notorious for helping students accumulate points.

There are about one million KCPE candidates each year. I am certain that by the time the students reach standard six, half a million of them will have accumulated enough points to go to a national school.

So now who will go to Alliance and Kenya High and who will go to Jamhuri high and Ngara girls and who will go to Ruthimitu mixed and Shadrack Kimalel?

We don't know because 500,000 students have all accumulated maximum points and their parents are demanding a spot at Alliance.

This system you propose is also prone to rampant corruption and inefficiency.

If schools require interviews then head-teachers will receive bribes to inflate grades of certain students. Teachers will leak the interview exam to whichever student has paid a bribe.

Students for their part will be forced to take several interview exams at different schools since they don't know which school will accept them.

If schools use report forms then some head-teachers will make their tests easy so that all their students can qualify to go to a national school.

Teachers will take bribes to make report forms look good.

Parents will resort to taking their children to schools with easier exams so that their report forms can look good.

And cheating will be far more rampant. Its easier to get leakage in a school exam than in a national exam.

Many western countries don't have national exams for entry into high school. The reason it works for them is because students get automatic entry into the school that is in their neighbourhood. So for example if you live in Lavington then you get automatic entry into Patch or Kabz. If you live at Laini saba then you get automatic entry into Shadrack Kimalel. And if you live near Thompson falls then you attend Ndururumo secondary.

That system leaves very little room for corruption and inefficiency. Residents of a location take pride in their local school and they work with the school boards and teachers to improve their schools. Their local property taxes go towards improving the school. So if you want a good school system then you must be willing to pay high property taxes.

if there are no national exams then Kenya may have to scrap national schools and leave it to local school boards to improve their schools. Because otherwise there is no objective criteria for determining who can join a national school