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Dear Kenyans, if I don't live to 2030, please ensure you refuse another education system. Get your mps to write a law barring system replacement in under a century. Because this CBC is cheap, unnecessarily disruptive, and ridiculous #CBCConference2019
.@EduMinKenya took the cheap way out. Instead of putting Kenya's minds together, introducing equity into education and expanding education beyond the schools, they opted for a completely new system with a poor track record. It's intellectual laziness typical of bureaucrats.
No developed country has done this, not even the Anglo Saxons who are mentally unstable because they need to exploit and be in constant war with the planet. The French, for example, introduced a new orthography a decade back, and it's still struggling to implement it. Why?
Because education is not just the formal system. Despite all the issues with 8.4.4, Kenyans built a wealth of knowledge and experience outside the formal structures that now can't be passed on because of this #CBCConference2019 disruption. This is a nationwide psychic violence
I am now carrying 4 education systems in my mind. I was taught by KAPE (Cambridge) graduates, I did 7-6-3, I'm teaching 8-4-4s who are going to teach 2-6-6-3's. This is utterly traumatic. It makes us keep shifting, never improving and having nothing to tell the next generation.
We keep blaming our youth for having a short attention span, but what is a short attention span if not CBC, and the 4 education systems we have had in less than 60 years? #CBCConference2019 is a major disruption that smells like #shockdoctrine
Now we've lost lessons that educators and students learned from 8.4.4 that could have been used to improve our education. We cant mentor the young ones like we should, because the process by CBC was forced on us to basically tell us how useless we are.
A nation needs continuity to have an identity. Each generation learns the past, and teaches it to the next generation, so that we improve what we need to, and continue works. But this regime has wiped out several layers on national memory, not just in education.
May the ancestors not forgive those who keep refusing Kenyans the space to remember, reflect and create.
