Boarding Schools To Be Abolished; CBC Report 2023
If the presidential task committee on education’s proposals are adopted and implemented, boarding primary and secondary schools might be phased out as early as next year.
If its intention to close all public primary and secondary residential schools is carried out, 32,437 primary schools and over 3,000 secondary schools will be converted to day schools.
Only 105 national secondary schools would be allowed to remain open as residential institutions.
Also Read:Â Jubilation to ECDE Teachers As TSC to Recruit & Pay Same Salary
In exchange, schools will be turned into centres of excellence tasked with accepting Junior Secondary School (JSS) students.
Dormitory devastation has previously occurred as a result of student rebellion at boarding institutions.
In recent months, certain residential schools have encountered a health crisis, resulting in the hospitalisation or death of some children owing to health and sanitation deficiencies.
Also Read: Gov’t Abolish National Schools As Nursery Teachers to Be Hired by TSC
The taskforce has proposed using comparison scores to evaluate which pupils are best suited for which type of institution in order to select which students will continue on to conventional day schools and which will be admitted to centres of excellence.
The junior high school (JSS) of the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) consists of Grades 7, 8, and 9, after which pupils progress to Senior Secondary (Grades 10, 11, and 12).
In contrast to their current 8-4-4 system competitors, whose examination scores decide their advancement to the next level, CBC has implemented a continuous assessment-based method to avoid the fierce competitiveness associated with national examinations such as the KCPE and KCSE.
The subject of whether or not to abolish boarding schools dominated discussion at a number of public engagement sessions organised by the taskforce, with some participants claiming that learners must be close to their parents and guardians during their formative years.
The task force, officially known as the Presidential Working Party on Education Reforms, has suggested the elimination of boarding institutions.
According to a section of the PWPER study, “depending on the availability of financial resources to upgrade all non-national schools to the same status as the latter, the abolishment should be within a time frame of five years.”
Boarding Schools To Be Abolished; CBC Report 2023
