Government warns principals of consequences if they send students home over uniforms, fees
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has warned Senior School Principals against sending home Grade 10 students without uniforms or school fees.
Education Cabinet Secretary Julius Ogamba has warned Senior School Principals against sending home Grade 10 students without uniforms or school fees.
Speaking on Sunday, January 25, in Kisii County, Ogamba said any principal who sends a student home over uniforms or fees will lose their job.
“We have said, through a directive from the President, that all children transitioning from Grade 9 to Grade 10 must be admitted to school even if they do not have uniforms or school fees. We will sort those issues out.
“Any teacher who sends a child back home, once that child gets home, that teacher should also go home. We will not allow this,” said Ogamba,
The Education CS mentioned that 94% of Grade 10 learners are already in school, while 6% of them are yet to report to school.
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Ogamba argued that the number of students yet to report to school is small enough not to stop the schools from operating.
“If you distribute these students across the roughly 7,000 schools available, you find that each school takes in about three or four students.
“A teacher cannot say that because they have a thousand students, taking in three or four who do not have uniforms will prevent the school from operating,” Ogamba stated.
Further, the Education CS said the ministry will resolve the issue of schools overcharging parents for uniforms.
“The issue about uniforms, which schools are charging almost Ksh37,000, will be resolved. The government has a plan, and we are going to address the issue of uniforms,” Ogamba added.
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