This KCPE Scandal revealed by Nation this morning is making me angry, ungovernable and furious.
That this year’s KCPE questions were lifted from a test paper that was sold to a few WEALTHY PRIVILEGED academies last month. Half the questions were lifted from 2 books that were used widely in these schools. I don’t need to STRESS how KENYAN SCHOOL SYSTEM is HOGWASH.
Don’t put your FAITH in it.
While your sons and daughters are toiling to pass that exam without any heads-up, sons and daughters of the rich were sold the exam questions a month ago, they have been revising KCPE for a month now. For them it will be a walk over.
The daughters and sons of the poor will toil in that exam room, some will fail. They will FOREVER be condemned by this system as failures. They will be relegated to stupid poor courses and remain in the lower end chain of life as those PRIVILEGED boys and girls go on to win prestigious courses, later become the top tier of graduates who later own control the few spaces on top.
That’s why I’m of the opinion, take your child to school to open up his BRAINS. Ignore the EXAMS. Once the brains are open, TEACH and SHOW him alternative ways to EARN a better life. In life we are AFTER WAYS TO MAKE MONEY TO EARN A COMFORTABLE LIFE. We are not in competition of how many DEGREES or certificates one has.
Find your life in business, talent, find something do and if it earns your a living, throw away your academic qualifications, in Kenya they are HOGWASH. We can’t compete in a rigged system like this. This is unfair. This is just UNACCEPTABLE. And Radical steps MUST BE TAKEN.
Ronald says
I wonder why people are ranting over innocent children in private schools. The books are in bookshops and are sold to both the rich and the poor. The exams are sellable to both private and public schools . schools choose which exams to buy hence not all private schools sat the exam in question. Let’s mind all children. There are no private children in Kenya.
Jackson Mpaka says
Are exams from heaven?
Jackson Mpaka says
What about the questions that are lifted from the previous kcpe papers?
Ben says
They discourage public schools from buying those books. There is a guide of books to buy. If you are got with those they ask are they found in the orange book?
Jackson Mpaka says
What about the questions that are lifted from the previous kcpe papers?
KOM says
Interesting enough , i think the nation journalist give half baked data so hard to trust him
If this guy can do what John A Namu was doing real investigative journalism upto tracing some few years ago to date , the so called ” top students who were being carried shoulder high in the TVs plus that school which had 300 A’s
its good to know the thruth
Mayunga Charles says
This is kenya
Allen says
Mmmm. We’re witnessing how men who appear to demonstrate integrity are using their capacities negatively. It’s quite sad. I think the threshold of the matter is with us. And the poor can only depend in God Almighty absolutely. There are men in this country who want to be referred to as gods
Anonymous says
Not true Exams come from books and papers.
The more you go through the more familiar questions you will meet in the exam.
Lazy ones never look at questions in books and papers just to comain later.