West Pokot Governor Simon Kachapin has asked the government to implement reports presented by various education commissions to help avert cases of unrest in schools.
Kachapin said the government has tasked various commissions to conduct investigations in learning institutions to help improve the facilities thus asked education ministry to implement them.
He also urged the education minster not to impose rules to learning institutions but instead consult with students and parents.
“We should not give directives to ours schools since the current generation is a delegate society. The minister concerned should do proper consultation with all educational stakeholders,” he said.
He said some directives that have been issued by the ministry are oppressing learners that is why we are experiencing unrest in our schools.
The former principal also asked the ministry to change the current curriculum to suit the society.
He said human rights have also contributed to the current unrest in schools where most of the institutions have been burnt.
“Our children have resulted to burning of schools since there is no heavy punishment imposed on rogue students,” he said.
He said corporal punishment should be reintroduced in schools to reduce hooliganism in schools.
“Suspension and expansion is not a solution. There is too much freedom in schools. You cannot cane a child. The laws that have been passed should be re-looked at,” he said.
Kachapin said guiding and counseling should be strengthened in learning institutions since drugs have infiltrated the society.
The county boss said the government should reconsider setting up day schools in developed regions and instead build boarding schools in slums and marginalized counties.
“In pastoral communities parents move from one region to another in search of pastures and boarding schools will help to retain learners in schools,” he said.
“In developed regions there is no need of boarding schools children should stay with their parents for them to have good norms. Day schools are cheap and should be encouraged,” said Kachapin.
Kachapin also stressed the need of taking indiscipline children to Approved schools to help change their negative behavior at early stage.
“Unruly children under twelve years should be taken to correctional schools,” he said.
He said bad leadership in learning institutions and peer pressure among the cause of fire in schools adding that the unrest in schools has exposed parents to poverty and
double spending.