Incidences of schools being burnt down has been on the increase in the recent past in most Kenyan schools leaving a question of who is to blame for the menace and which mechanism can the education stake holders use to end the cases of unrest in the schools.
Students have failed to follow right mechanism to air out their grievances due to poor channel of communication between school administration and students something that has been linked to the reason behind the torching down of the schools.
The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary Wilson Sossion has held that the new directives issued by the ministry of education cabinet secretary Fred Matiang’i which include shifting of prayers day and visiting day from third term to second term as the cause of unrest in schools but the Cabinet secretary of education said that those changes are aimed at restoring the image of education in Kenya by ensuring that exam cheating become history.
Speaking to several students of one of the school in Bungoma County, the students revealed that sometimes they are restricted to air out their views, and when somebody is aggressive to know how school administration is running school affairs they are issued with threats of being expelled from school.
Such cases where students are not allowed to freely air out matters that are pressing them can fuel students to engage into ill act which includes setting their dormitories on fire, o course their reasoning is that it will make them be heard.
There are also allegations that teachers who have embezzled fund meant to fund education are fueling students to engage into torching of schools so that evidence is destroyed, that is where the dormitories were the project where the money was used and it turned out that they are not valued at the said money.
All these claims are valid and may be right or not, therefore the views should be taken seriously by the concerned stakeholders and come up with amicable solutions to end the arson unrest in school.