I think that the celebration after Kibaki waived tuition fee from January 2008 Secondary School fees will not only be short lived but its also a political ploy bound to fall flat on its face.
The last time I checked, tuition fees constituted the least amount in the total fee structure and rated from Ksh200.00 to Ksh3, 600.00 per term per child depending on the level of the school from National to the District Schools. To say that the government was waiving this fee is, in reality an insult on the intelligence of parents in the know. Has someone noted the silence that is coming from KNUT? Why? You may ask, because they know the reality.
But, this being an election year, God forbid, we will be promised heaven. Trust me on that.
The Ksh4B that will be waived may be used to standardize the sciences laboratories across the Secondary schools or create the necessary ICT infrastructure to the schools and make Computer Studies a mandatory subject. Or, if the above is too hard to conceive in the minds of the senile leaders we voted in, then they can build more secondary schools to increase the rate of transition from Primary to Secondary School.
This I believe will have more impact on our people than the waiver. The results will be immediate and will benefit the country for years to come.
But as I said earlier, we are in an election year and more unplanned promises are bound to come our way this time round.
As they say, watch the gift horse on the mouth and read in between those lines.
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