Umoja News has heard parents complain about secret tuition, and money being paid to schools in the greater Embakasi area.
Donholm Primary School is particularly mentioned in low tones over a Saturday Tuition that requires parents to pay Sh200 per child.
The reason is that the teachers say the pupils need more training in the subjects so as to perform well in exams.
This is okay, but the amount of money is not only ridiculous but outside-school-hours tuition is illegal.
Another School in Buruburu, Bidii Primary School has also started demanding pupils as young as grade 2 to go for tuition in school on Saturday.
The fee for this is Sh100 per child.
In the two schools, the population per class is about 50 and they have streams, so this puts Donholm Primary and Bidii Primary at about Sh10,000 and Sh5000 richer per class respectively on a single day.
This is daylight robbery.
That money is too much.
Umoja News understands that schools receive little money from the government for the Free Primary Education; one which doesn’t sustain to do certain activities, but charging over Sh50 per child is not an excuse.
Apart from being illegal, banned by the Ministry of Education over 7 years ago, Tuitions must not cost that much.
Tragic and a burden
At Donholm Primary, they’ve taken the ‘fundraising’ activity a notch hire.
The unofficial school fees is Ksh2900 per term. On top of this, parents are supposed to cough up Ksh50 per day for lunch, Ksh10 for porridge.
The said part of this school is that if a pupil fails to bring the monies, they are beaten like prisoners.
‘It is like a concentration camp’, one parent said, adding that the pupils are then told not to tell their parents that they’ve been beaten.
At Donholm Primary School, parents are told to pay Ksh150 per exam.
It is tragic.
Schools under the new Competency Based Curriculum have become burden to parents. There are requiests such as those to buy first aid its, paper rims per child.
Where do they take all these things? Because how can a school; let’s narrow down to a class, how can a class handle over 50 rims of paper costing Sh300?
It is a burden.
Parents to make those Parents Teachers Association meetings worthwhile.
Most have been held hostage in that if they speak up or try to reason these things out, their kids would either be expelled or mistreated by teachers.
Meanwhile, teachers in these schools are buying cars, living large. Not bad, but at what expense?
Extortionists
