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Kenya's CBC education reform: How scarecrows are terrifying parents
Unhappy Kenyan parents have been taking to social media to highlight challenges that they are facing as they assist their children with their homework.
With the rollout of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) hitting children aged 10 and 11, some say they have found themselves forced to learn how to make scarecrows and fashion clocks and even wheelbarrows out of cardboard.
Some of the complaints, using the hashtag #CBCMustFall, have been tongue-in-cheek, with amusing tweets with photos showing their questionable workmanship.
"It is a curriculum where teachers give assignments to the parents, the children are just co-ordinators. We are suffering," one man tweeted.
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This post is long over-due. I do not know how to begin thanking you (Kenyans) for the support you’ve shown me since last year. Whether it was financial, or urging me not to give up when everything seemed to be falling apart, or simply offering up prayers for me.
Getting in touch with all those who have been a part of this journey has been a slow and gradual process. But now that I am more settled, I am working on communicating better with all of you.
I suppose I can say that this adventure to Spain began the minute I received my confirmation that I had been admitted to ISDE (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economia) in Madrid to study for a Masters in International Sports Law in 2014. I had applied in June 2013 . It is a prestigious course, with a phenomenally high fee of 25,000 EUR (Roughly 3 Million Kenya Shillings).
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