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24 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
This textbook thing is a scam

1. The bible, hymnal and dictionaries are on the internet. Why should kids buy these, especially kids with resources and the internet? I thought KICD said CBC would make kids more digitally savvy.
2. The workbooks were a major scam, and it's amazing that the media didn't pick it up. Publishers loved CBC because now kids had to write in workbooks rather than spare the textbook and write in exercise books. That means that older kids can't pass down textbooks.
3. The other publishing scam was that publishers now recycled 8.4.4 books but wrote CBC on the cover, cheating parents that the textbooks had fundamentally changed. Again, that's how you prevent kids from passing down textbooks to their younger sibblings.
I said a year ago that an education system doesn't need textbooks. It needs libraries. Vary the books that kids have access to, they become better readers and knowledge seekers. The obsession with textbooks is about business. It's not about education.
And as always, we have American vampires to thank for our cannibalist behavior.
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3 Jul
This feeling, of writing history in the present, is something we can all enjoy. Every person who works. But we have to claim it like lawyers have done. We have to look at our history, and ask ourselves how our work fits into it.

That's what education is supposed to help us do.
When we work without seeing how our work fits into the larger scheme of things, we feel useless, like our lives don't matter. That's causes despair anxiety and depression which are increasing among Kenyans. We must fight that by insisting on putting our work in the larger history
The role of education should simply be to help us connect what we do to the larger society. But our school system fights against that. Instead of teaching history and collaboration, it has reduced knowledge to small disconnected bits called "competencies."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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28 Jun
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.
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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
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