Thika West District Education officer (DEO) Ephantus Micheni Kaugi has refuted claims by Education CS Jacob Kaimenyi that abolishing mocks exams will curb increasing strikes among students.
The education officer said that stern action should be taken against the striking students so they can be disciplined and concentrate on their studies.
He said that being lenient on the students and negotiating with them on their terms of learning gives them an opportunity to disobey the teachers and thus it will be hard for teachers to conduct their activities in the schools.
Speaking in Thika on Sunday, the DEO called on the education minister to consider better ways of solving the issue rather than negotiating with them as they will initially think that they are being feared and continue burning dormitories and striking.
Kaugi has added that the students should be subjected to the mocks as even the elderly people in the society passed through the same test and they didn’t strike due to panic.
“We did the mocks too and we didn’t strike due to fear as they allege to be doing. They should be punished and not tolerated as Kaimenyi is trying to do. They will get used to negotiations and continue burning the schools,” Micheni said.