Schools have begun to reopen for term 3, which also symbolizes the end of a trampled academic calendar that began after the Covid-19 Pandemic.
The schools are reopening amid clamor from parents over high fees, where they had to pay in the last two years a comprehensive 3-year academic calendar.
This year, schools had 4 terms, that took ten weeks each. In between, there has been a week’s holiday.
Parents who spoke said that the two years have been financially pulling with a many of them taking loans to keep the learners in school.
Mr. John Mbae, a parent in Nairobi, said that schools break for only 1 week and learners are supposed to recommence with academic materials and school fees, which has been very straining.
Parents whose learners are in boarding secondary schools and those in private schools bore the highest load as they work to certify that they clear school fees for every term.
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Those in day secondary schools and public schools had their tuition fee paid by the government under the free secondary education and free primary education programme.
The government pays Kshs 22,244 for public secondary schools. Parents are only required to pay only the boarding fees for their learners.
Despite a warning to Principals and Headteachers by Prof. George Magoha, the Education Cabinet Secretary, not to send students home for fees, some schools have disobeyed the order.
Through the Kessha, Principals have commenced asking the government to issue capitation funds for the third term.
They learning institutions have run under constricted budgets and have had to suffer huge debts due to delayed payment of cash.
