Babu Owino, Member of Parliament for Embakasi East, has called on the government to abandon the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) educational system.
During a question-and-answer session with Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu, the lawmaker said that the system was wasting students by turning them into experiments.
“The CBC which has now become the incompetency-based curriculum, the CS, can we do away with this programme? Because we’re wasting our children, they’re acting as a control experiment which is going to backfire,” Owino said on Wednesday, June 8
“You find that in junior secondary school, one teacher is handling a maximum of about 8 to 10 subjects. How viable is it for a teacher to prepare for a subject that he will teach the following day?” he posed.
The outspoken senator bemoaned the shortage of teachers in Junior Secondary schools, claiming that one teacher was responsible for at least eight topics.
The Embakasi East legislator also questioned the expense of CBC, claiming that schools have been sending students home for specific materials despite the fact that primary education is meant to be free.
“What is currently happening in public primary schools where you find that learners are being sent away from school because of certain materials which are required from these learners?” the lawmaker posed.
