Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has criticised the just concluded form one selection.
Speaking on Sunday, Kuria said many students from Kiambu County, and Mt Kenya region as a whole, have been punished by the system used by the Ministry of Education to admit them to secondary schools.
The MP said many students in the region had chosen schools in the Mt Kenya area but have been admitted to ‘small’ schools elsewhere.
“How can a child from Tetu score 420 marks and be admitted to a funny school like Mumbuini Secondary School yet we have good schools like Kagumo in Nyeri?” asked Kuria during a church service at Kigogoini PCEA.
The vocal MP said he will not sit down and watch slots in good schools in the area being given to students from other regions.
“These schools were built by our grandfathers and grandmothers who wanted the schools to help their children. Even if we will have to downgrade our schools from national schools to village schools, we will do so that our children can learn in those schools,” the MP said.
There have been complaints by parents and pupils over the schools they have been selected to join, many arguing they had not chosen the said schools when they sat the 2018 KCPE.
Education CS Amina Mohammed, while launching the form one selection, said regional balance and merit would guide allocations to national schools.
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