1/ It is hard to understand how some people reason. You raise very specific issues about CBC and someone responds by saying how they like it and how we should give it a chance. Why not address the issues raised?
2/ Some people think that CBC is just a different content delivery methodology. CBC is an entire system of education which is very different from 8-4-4 and which is totally inappropriate for our current economic realities.
3/ Most of the people praising CBC are doing so out of ignorance. They have not read the foundational documents for the system. They do not understand its proposals on career progression for their children. This is irresponsible parenting.
4/ How many of these people will accept the verdict that their children career pathway has been determined as Repairing Bodabodas or Hairdressing and that their children's formal academic education basically ends at 14 year?
5/ How many will accept when their children are declared unfit to learn mathematics, sciences and languages beyond 14 years? How many people do you know who didn't go past standard eight & are able to fluently speak and write English or Swahili (forget native Swahili speakers)?
6/ It is simplistic to reduce this debate into one of whether CBC is bad or good or whether you like it or not or whether it is better than 8-4-4 or not. This is not what the debate is about. The debate is about very specific irredeemable flaws in the system.
7/ If the curriculum reforms were being done properly these are the issues that should have been debated exhaustively prior to CBC rollout.
8/ We are now in a messy situation where the implementation and the public participation are happening at the same time. This will end up in chaos and tears.
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