Love or not love @DavidNdii, he's the one person who engages publicly on economic questions. So instead of bombarding me with demands for a perfect education system, ask him this: how can Kenyans live a decent life regardless of their papers?
Kenyans are being lazy and childish, thinking that they can demand a perfect education system but not ask about the economy. It's not our job as teachers to fix economic problems. And @EduMinKenya is being dishonest promising financial heaven through a curriculum.
If parents don't want to do the POLITICAL work of getting a better economy, then we'll stay with this hollow CBC that is basically snake oil for economic problems.
But it's not teachers to fix this. It's you as citizens. Demand better.
I have done my bit through #maishakazini, showing how this economy screws us adults. At the workplace, in entrepreneurship, in ideas. But no, it's easier to keep demanding curriculum because you make the economic future of your child the teacher's problem.
No. It's YOUR problem.
Elections are coming up next year. What are you going to politically demand for when it comes to the economy? If you want help, ask Ndii. But heck no, I'm not encouraging this cowardice and laziness by looking for a "perfect system" for you.
Voting properly and making proper political demands on work and the economy is the real "parental involvement." Not doing kids' homework.
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The fundamental justification of CBC is that some people are born deserving everything, and others are not. Of course, nobody in @KICDKenya would say it that way, because it would cause a riot. So they repeat different versions of that ideology, but with different words.
The most common phrasing of this ideology is this:
"Kids do badly in subject X because they are NOT TALENTED, and it is a waste of resources to teach those kids. We should throw them instead to the dustbin of TVET or sports."
In one conversation we had on @ntvkenya on this very CBC, someone even said that some people are meant to be slaves, and that education is for teaching people how unequal they are.
This was in 2017, just after the elections which were contested around that very ideology.
Throughout his presidency, Muigai has pulled this stunt of behaving like an ordinary mwananchi when in reality, he's president. He's Kenya's gaslighter no. 1.
BBI is just the latest of such incidents where he uses the presidency to pretend he's not president.
The most famous of times was when he asked the nation what he should do about corruption, claiming that the constitution had neutered him and so he had no power to hold anyone accountable.
Two years earlier, he held the public responsible for sexual assault, showed no sympathy for victims, and behaved like he was an ordinary observer, not the president.
The word "competency" on CBC is an empty signifier. It doesn't answer the question "competency at what?" So we all come to CBC thinking that it means competency at whatever we like. That's dangerous because it means we're all expecting different things from the same concept.
I talked about that problem of hearing different things like the proverbial six blind men around an elephant. Everybody who defends CBC defends it based on what they individually think Kenyans need, rather than on what the curriculum actually means.
The founders of "competency education" two centuries ago were industrialists who were clear what they wanted: workers with skills in the area of employment and nothing else. No critical thinking, no social knowledge. That's why American educators rejected it. 3 times.
Last night, @citizentvkenya did this university education bashing based on speculation.
They said that of the scandalous 143,000 who obtained the entry C+ grade, 15k "chose" not to go to uni, and of those, and 4k "chose" TVET. #CitizenWeekend
Let's look at the data for a moment.
How did @citizentvkenya decide that the kids who did not pick university did so out of choice? I have personally interacted with kids who didn't do university applications because of misleading information from the school. #CitizenWeekend
Wouldn't the logical thing to do be for @citizentvkenya to look for those kids and ask them why they are not going to university?
And then, 5k of 150k is 3%. How are 3% a comment on university education? #CitizenWeekend
Gichuru displayed his upper class sensibilities. On one hand he says learning should be for jobs so kids should go to TVET, but when it comes to his own kids, suddenly learning is about play and a "lifetime experience."
And then Gichuru goes on about how universities have become too bureaucratic. But whose fault is that? BUSINESSES. That nonsense of work-ready graduates promoted by parasite sector has scared universities away from doing any innovative curriculum. #citizenweekend
There seems to be a clot in the Kenyan brain that blocks people from seperating economic problems from education. The #Somenivijana story of going to school for employment was for an exclusive to the colonial civil service and foreign companies. It was not the general economy.
The British caved in to higher education for Africans because it wanted to train a Kenyan civil service that would serve British interests after 1963. That is why uni education got attached to employment. The civil service is a parasitic enterprise. It doesn't grow the economy.
Because the civil service doesn't grow the economy, it soon ran out of employment positions. That was when they 1) said civil servants were allowed to do business and 2) started this evil propaganda of telling Kenyans "rudi mashambani" and stop seeking employment #somenivijana