Mbariki ECDE centre in Nyanduma in Lari ward.[FILE/Standard] Let’s say it as it is: teachers don’t go to school. They go to work. School is for students. Teachers step through those same iron gates carrying not bags of books, but the weight of a nation’s future. They don’t enter to be taught; they enter to teach. They don’t attend; they attend to. Think about it. A student’s mission is personal: attend classes, jot notes, dodge assignments, pass exams and climb the ladder of grades. Follow The Standard channel on WhatsApp A teacher’s mission is universal: prepare lessons, fight ignorance like…
Author: By Raphael Ng'ang'a
A parent shopping for books at Savanis Book Centre on April 28, 2025 as schools resume class for Second Term Learning. [Kanyiri Wahito, Standard] Walk into any bookshop in Nairobi, Kisumu or Nakuru, and you will find the same story written not in the pages but on the price tags: books have become unaffordable for the average Kenyan. A children’s storybook costs as much as a kilo of meat. A high school set book can swallow half a day’s wages for a casual laborer. Follow The Standard channel on WhatsApp A full set of secondary school textbooks is easily worth more than a boda boda rider’s…
Jabstir school class 4 and 5 pupils match along Kakamega streets on their way to Lurambi to create awareness on environmental and drug abuse on October 28, 2022. [FILE/Standard] Peer pressure, broken homes, poverty and a booming underground market are fuelling a crisis that threatens Kenya’s future. Follow The Standard channel on WhatsApp Drug and substance abuse in Kenyan schools has shifted from whispers in dormitories to headlines in newspapers. It is a fire spreading through classrooms and playgrounds, consuming not just the promise of young learners but also the country’s future. We have watched in silence as children as young as twelve trade…