KEPSA calls for public participation before reintroducing caning in schools
By Dickson Odhiambo
December 7, 2021
KEPSA calls for public
participation before reintroducing caning in schools
There should proper process of public participation before
the issue of caning is reintroduced in schools across the country to help in
restoring disciplines among students.
Kenya Private Schools Association says all the stakeholders
should be involved before the Government embark on bringing back the issue of
corporal punishment in schools.
Address the press after a meeting of Private schools owners
within Nyanza and Western regions who were discussing digitization of
publications content, the Kenya Private Schools Association National Chairman
Charles Ochome says the government needs to think first on why it abolished
caning in schools and give the reason as to why it want to re-introduced in
schools.
He says the Government needs to think deeply whether this
will be the only solution to the problems of strikes bedeviling schools that
include burning of dormitories within the schools compounds.
Ochome says if this is going to be done then all the
stakeholders need to be fully involved through the process of public participation
as enshrined in the Article ten of the constitution of Kenya 2010.
“It can help or it can’t because it was removed since some
teachers became too much on the issue of corporal punishment in schools,”
Ochome adds.
He says if at it is going to be re-introduced in schools
then there is need to ask about who is going to administer such to the
children.
Ochome says the issue
of burning schools across the country which is currently witnessed is a very
sad state of affairs which needs to be addressed urgently.
He says parents have a greater responsibility in up bringing
their children in a moral manner by teaching them being disciplined right from
home to school.
He says that the issue of congestion in Government owned secondary
schools should be addressed because it seems to be one of the issues.
Ochome suggests that the Government should consider placing
students from public schools to private schools and allocate them the free
secondary education funds with an aim of decongesting the public secondary schools.
“The Government should consider spreading the students from
public secondary schools to privately owned ones and give the same capitation
with an aim of decongesting the public secondary schools because this could be
one of the reasons why students go on strike due to pressure as a result of
congestion,” Ochome says.
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