The normal school program was disrupted at Muget Primary School in Moiben Uasin Gishu County after angry parents stormed the learning institution and locked all the classrooms over what they said was the lack of teachers for Junior Secondary School (JSS) pupils in the school.
The angry parents accused the Ministry of Education at both county and national government levels, of neglecting their children saying only two JSS teachers were posted to teach 45 pupils.
Armed with padlocks and placards, the parents said JSS pupils have not been learning due to lack of teachers, books and other necessities.
Jackson Kwambai a parent said that as parents we are irritated and agitated by the new curriculum because there is no way one teacher can be able to teach all the fourteen subjects alone. He further said that if the system is not being implemented effectively, it is better to do away with it and go back to 8-4-4 system.
Another parent identified as Reuben Kipchumba added that if things are left the way they are, the coming generation will perish and lack the way forward in their studies. The situation is so bad and the government needs to put up the requisite infrastructure to secure the future of these learners.
The parents decried the state of the school’s infrastructure blaming the school management and the county government’s education department for laxity.
Parents blame the school management for neglecting the school as they say that the classrooms are not maintained and are not in a condition to used for learning. The is no electricity in the school as it was cut due to lack of payment of the bills.
The parents want the Ministry of Education to intervene to enable their children to go back to class like any other JSS pupil in the country.
The parents have closed down the school until all JSS requirements of books, teachers and infrastructure are put in place or as they say; their children are taken back to the 8-4-4 system.
The fate of 350 pupils in this school that was founded in 1988 hangs in the balance
