The President, William Ruto, one of his insiders Mr David Chirchir, has called for total eradication of the CBC, TPAD and TPD.
According to Mr David Chirchir, the three agendas take a lot of time from teachers therefore messing with their skills to be creative.
He says in Competence-Based Curriculum teachers spends a lot of time uploading, marking and assessing scores on the Kenya National Examination Council portal which is tedious and involving exercise.
He also said that Competence-Based Curriculum controls the teachers by demanding huge amount of reporting and constant assessment.
He said that teacher’s concentration cannot be creative when they are trying to make KNEC assessment, Lesson plans, TPD and TPAD but also disturbing that the TSC CEO, Dr Nancy Macharia, will hand over them if they don’t send the correct documents.
The President has already recognized a taskforce which is set to begin collecting views from the community which will update the areas and how the Competence-Based Curriculum will be reviewed.
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Mr David Chirchir is not the one calling for changes in Competence-Based Curriculum. Member of parliament Homabay, Mr Peter Kaluma, also took a dig at the curriculum vacating for its immediate termination.
Mr Peter Kaluma said that Competence-Based Curriculum should be done with and reintroduce the 8:4:4 trained pupils in music instruments, tailoring, agriculture, art, music, home science, masonry, carpentry, craft and embroidery.
Other politicians including Knut Secretary general, Wilson Sossion, Kimillil MP Didmus Barasa and Kakamega Senator Bonny Khalwale has also called for the complete refurbishment of the curriculum.
The first Competence-Based Curriculum are currently Grade six and will transfers to Junior Secondary in January next year after their last exams in November.
On Teacher Professional Development, the current government, through the Kenya Kwanza Manifesto promised to pay for the training sequencer and relieve teachers from the load.
