@atiriti

Can you explain in no more than a 100 word insha exactly how not going to Alliance equates to punishment?

you have read the stories here on wazua. How parents take their kids to private school in Nairobi then send them to NE to take their exams.

Now that is punishing the students from poor families.

There is nothing in the constitution that guarantees a child with high marks will go to Alliance or Lenana. So that so called court case is dead in the water.

However the constitution guarantees fairness and an education.

So put your money in your pocket and concentrate on educating your child not buying them high marks to the detriment of the sharp student from shags.

Or as someone put it here, use your money and take them to ISK, then USIU.

@ Wakandi, you will be very surprised.

I just have an issue with people like you who think that it is a human tragedy not to take your kid to alliance. That is tragic indeed. It is not a case worth merit in any serious court and you know it.

So rather than getting all worked up because your kid didn't go to a national school, go back to school and learn how to piece an argument that will stand the muster of being semi-valid or worthy of note.

As you do that learn the basics of punctuation.

Education being paid for by my taxes (read national schools) should be fair and evenly distributed. Not the privy of semi-illiterate parents who've decided that buying an education is the hallmark of success.

Good people, wait for the KCSE exams to be out in February, and the debate will start all over again with similar quotas for admission into public universities. I am sure the ministry and JAB will introduce a 1:5 ratio for private to public entry into UNIs.

Starehe, Mangu and Alliance will have 80% and more of their students selected by JAB into UNIs, while Sunshine and other private high schools will only get 15% allocation.

It is not just KCPE that needs major reforms. Read KCSE and UNI too. Heck, the whole education system from kindergarten to PhD should be reformed.

And what is going wrong? One word, COMMERCIALISATION. There is a lot of money being made in education nowadays. For example, a Parallel Med student pays 475k tuition + accomodation + UNI statutory charges per year for 5 years. There are 300 Para Med students vis a vis 100 Regular Med students. Have you ever wondered, what if there were only 100 fixed places for Med in UNI every year? Parents would literally buy these places, with fees going into as much as a million a year. A bright student from Nguviu Boys would never get the chance to do medicine.

It hurts to take your child to a private school, pay lots of money in school fees, and then get declined entry into a good national school. The mentality is, I paid THIS MUCH for primary education and so I DESERVE to get my son/daughter into a BIG GOOD high school. But what about the boy/girl from Makueni who goes to the local village school and gets 20 marks less than my child?

IMHO, All the government is doing is taking care of the disadvantaged ones in society who have no one to advocate for them.

Less what?