We can save Our schools.

We can save Our schools.

In trying to make sense of the new set of homegrown terror ‘Choma Shule’ several sets of questions bombard my medulla. Why and how is it planned and executed? What is the reward or rather the motivation that radicalize the young into senseless beings of low IQ’s acting like rats? By assumption and as it has been, the children of Kenyan parents have been deemed to exercise and demonstrate excellent critical thinking. Their acts as they have demonstrated recently indicates the extent to which the deviation from the exact purpose of school and we can merely conclude that this could be the real cause of the woes facing the entire republic. My presumption is that these emergent acts of arson are the manifestations of years of decaying morals in the society and in the institutions of learning. It could also be as the results of infiltration of judicial evils into the schools or excessive acts of Corruption or Education cabinet prescribing to our schools certain ideals in an attempt to make them conform with foreign institutions.

First, the extent in which students are burning institutions without fear of the consequences indicates the depth in which moral decay has sunk into the core of the schools. I was once a student and I happened to have heard a few incidents in which dormitories were burned down and most of them were as a result of electrical malfunction or carelessness of some students in handling of electrical cables.  I have a different preposition and you are welcome to disagree with. This immense indiscipline in Kenyan schools is the product of years of corruption. Students and parents have learned easy ways of earning grades by purchase and any discussion that tends to lock these loopholes will expose many lazy and immoral students to public scrutiny and humiliation. These agitations in schools could mean that the Government is changing the tactic and they are beginning to address the long brooded problem causing the consumers to respond inappropriately. Perhaps the burning could also be a result of boredom and too much time, students have no motivation to study since exam is readily available by purchase.

Another reality that we have to face is the extent in which infiltration of judicial rot is creeping into High schools. It might be very hard to visualize this linkage, but many lawyers have seized opportunities and are pursuing several cases relating to disciplinary actions taken against teachers. The government having taken away the teachers’ authority to discipline students has created a loophole for certain parents to exercise the Western demon of suing teachers for punishing their children. Punishment was and has been the corner post of most learning institutions in Kenya, and for the Cabinet to deny teachers these privileges has bred Zombie like Kids. These kids have morally decayed and are incapable of thinking beyond their acts. Teachers have been forced to be passive and mere spectators in the loosing game of institution versus discipline.

Conformity is another construct that the Government is ignorantly imposing and enforcing in the Kenyan institutions of learning. In their attempts to make everything look like the Western institutions, the Government is driving students into unfamiliar territories lacking the good and old African set of morals. Purpose defines learning and the idea of taking Arts, Agriculture and other subjects out of Primary schools has created a vacuum in the society. Students are being forced to learn things they lack basic practical experience. The end game in this endeavor is idleness and almost at all times an idle mind is a room for evil acts. Students needs some work, they need some old art and craft, some music, Home Science or Agriculture. Let us lock away cellphones and calculators and replace them with the ole manual ways because several research has proven that technology is an enemy of critical thinking. Excessive tuition and short holidays should be banned and allow them to stay at home with to catch up with some homemade values.

Taking a few steps back is not an act of cowardice but rather another way of gaining momentum. Something used to work well in our institutions and certain changes that have taken place over the last few years seem to have been the wrong steps. Discipline was the only Uniqueness that separated KENYAN institutions from the rest of the World. The skills and knowledge we gained then, enabled some of us to travel to foreign lands and be able to merge their game and beat them with ease. The West is crying and struggling with too much drama and low IQ’s among kids and this is the direction we are headed. The country should stick to their old good and make necessary adjustment when need be and not for purposes of conformity. Save our schools.