Dear mindukras,
You are not aristocrats. You are not aristocrats. You are not aristocrats.
When you think of politics, you should be thinking of where your children go to school, where they play, and how you get healthcare. Instead, you leave politics to dances about wheelbarrows and BBI, and then you ask me what you can individually do for your kids. Why are you not getting it?
You go to church and form groups to fix the poor public primary schools that your sleepy and abused children pass every morning at 5 am on their way to a group of schools. Your priorities are skewed. Then you ask me how you can further screw your kids to fit in a gig economy.
Instead of fixing the local primary school for kids who are not yours, form an association of parents for public schools. 1000 of you, with 5 friends of facebook, means at least 5,000 Kenyans making public education a political issue. Get a chairman with a spine who will tell politicians that no one gets your vote or support without saying how ALL schools in Kenya can be funded. That work of advocacy is worth much more than the few thousand shillings you donate to a run down primary school. And you know what? Your kids will learn more from your work for social justice than they will ever learn from a teacher blabbering the “approved curriculum” in class. I’m speaking from personal experience.
Let that poor primary school be run down. The parents who take their kids there will call their MCAs to account. Your donation is protecting the MCA, not helping the poor.
The stupidity of you mindukras is that you bought that line of “what’s your solution,” and you let the rich cheat you that talking, education and public awareness are not “doing something.” So you want to believe that you are the Duchess of Cambridge and your job is to give back to society.
Mbraray faggin. You have no money to give back! If you did, you would be signing charity cheques while you play golf at Muthaiga golf club.
What you have to give back is your mind and your devotion, the mind which our taxes and your family’s fundraising spent taking you to school. You are supposed to be the light shining on the mess that our country is in. That contribution is priceless, and the political class knows it. Thats why they are distracting you with wheelbarrows and handshakes.
Ati individual level. Shaitaan! You are not an aristocrat or a duchess. Your job is to be a citizen, not a landlord.
BY WANDIA NJOYA via FB
Anonymous says
I wholeheartedly agree with you. The middle class are equally caught up in a state of apathy leaving a national ddevelopment demand as crucial as education to the whims of politicians, thieves and corrupt institutional heads craving to be rich running away from their humble backgrounds.
Education planners and policy makers in Kenya do not have their children in public schools and hence their aloofness making decisions for “them” with no personal touch.
The attitude that public schools are for the children of the poor is because the government is not committed to standardising quality of education.
Corrupt thieves have invaded every sector stealing from the sick, children, the elderly, the youth and will not be surprised if they start robbing street urchins.
Nothing will change in Kenya if the public can’t keep the government on its toes to provide equal opportunity for all children whether in private or public schools.
The Constitution provides for equal treatment in respect of all rights. Under the mandatory basic education support to children through school funding, the government need be made to support children in private schools at the same level of funding per child and parents to top up just to meet the balance as per the fee standard of the specific institution. That children in private schools do not benefit from this funding is discriminatory and it’s shameful when the CS education talks of equity yet they’re not treating the children equally when it comes to funding. Parents with children in private schools are also tax payers. The children have NEMIS number and the teachers are registered by TSC. The private schools easen up the over-crowding in public schools. Why is the government not funding them? I’d not be surprised if there are funds for private school children but being squandered elsewhere.