Be consistent on school re-opening date, Kisumu MCA tells Magoha
By Dickson Odhiambo
July 1, 2020
Be consistent on school
re-opening date, Kisumu MCA tells Magoha
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof George Magoha has been told
to be consistent on the issue of re-opening schools across the country as the public grapple with Covid-19 pandemic.
A Member of the County Assembly of Kisumu has challenged the
Education Cabinet Secretary to stand firm and have a specific date of
re-opening the schools across the country which were shut down due to the
Corona virus pandemic and not to continue confusing school-going children.
Addressing the press at the precincts of the county Assembly
of Kisumu, South West Ward Member of County Assembly Erick Agola said the
Cabinet Secretary for education should have a structured way of communicating
the issue as to when the schools will be re-opened.
Has accused Prof. Magoha of being inconsistent as far as the
issue of re-opening of schools is concerned.
“The Cabinet Secretary in charge of Education should have a
structured way of communication so that he can pass information to the entire republic
in a structured manner,” he says.
The Member of the County Assembly says Prof. Magoha’s move
of keeping on changing the school re-opening is even very worrying to pupils in
primary schools and students in secondary schools across the country.
“Let us put ourselves in our young children’s shoes who have
structured their minds and are now composed that schools will be re-opened in
September this year but if this move keeps on changing then it confuses the
children further,” Agola adds.
He adds that there were information from the Ministry of
Education that schools could have re-opened in June this year but that did not
happen as anticipated.
The issues of re-opening schools across the country has been
a burning one and a section of some stakeholders have been questioning when
reopening will take place and what measures will be taken to ensure that the
spread of the pandemic is curbed.
Recently, the education cabinet secretary Prof George Magoha
was in Kisumu where he met Principals of TVET Institutions on the way forward before
such colleges are reopened.
The biggest issue is the issue of social distancing among
students in schools where the Government has seen it as a major challenge.
“This is what is going to determine whether we open the institutions of learning or not. There is no country in the world who has dared to open when the pandemic is going up,” Magoha said.
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It's not healthy exposing our children to covid ,the pandemic has caused a lot of confusion.
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