Kenya aims to abolish boarding schools up to grade nine (about 14–15 years old), which encompasses elementary and junior secondary schools.
Parents would have to send their kids to day schools, Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang said at a meeting for head teachers in Nairobi Wednesday.
He claimed that the government had decided to permit youngsters to be cared for by their guardians or parents. But children from groups of pastoral nomads will be immune from the laws.
According to him, roughly 28% of Kenya’s primary school students attend boarding schools, which is a significant percentage when compared to other nations.
He asserted that parents should be their children’s primary educators and that we cannot outsource parenting.
The only way we will be with these children is if they are in a day school setting, he added. “We need to start socializing ourselves that we need to be with our children,” he said.
