20/05/2020
*PROPOSAL TO THE TASKFORCE ON COVID19 EDUCATION MANAGEMENT ON REOPENING OF SCHOOLS:*
BY KEPSHA MEMBERS (to be forwarded THRO' NICHOLAS GATHEMIA, KEPSHA National Chair).
We have watched with keen interest the reopening of schools in China and Spain after the Corona pandemic. We will not compare Kenya with those countries but we trust that not rushing to open schools is important to avoid very costly mistakes that may spell disaster to our nation.
We suggest as follows:
1. That schools close until September, and resume for two months to finish term one.
2. Term 2 begins in January 2021 upto April,2021.
3.Term 3 begins in may upto July,2021.
4. KCPE, KCSE, PTE, KISE,and all other KNEC National exams be done in July 2021 and every year .
5.The school Calendar year will be aligned with the government financial year where Government year begins in July.
6.The long closure will free taxpayers cash that would have been used for free education to be used to improve School infrastructure to meet the *one metre rule and social distance* in classes.
7. Government to use part of the COVID 19 funds and source for more funding from *UNICEF, WHO,WB,US, China, Bill Gates,Jack Ma(not Jackson Masai😂) etc. and allocate *Kshs:5 million* to each public learning institution to mitigate effects of the pandemic on the new environment in our education institutions.
8. Fresh admissions be done based on counties where no child should cross from one county to another...
Each county to admit its own children within the county from *ECDE,Primary,High School, and colleges where possible...
9. Teachers be posted within their home areas to avoid spread of COVID 19 from hotspot areas...
10. God is against *delocalisation* office School Principals and Headteachers, and this should be reversed immediately before September,2020.
*CONCLUSION*
Schools can't reopen in the current circumstances even if school managers are under pressure from creditors, school workers and others.
Scho