Thika School for the blind KCPE candidates were Tuesday morning hit by a major setback, when the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) failed to provide answer sheets for their exams.
The candidates were forced to use their own materials for the exam, after the examinations body failed to supply them with the special sheets.
The school head teacher Jotham Makokha condemned the examination council for bestowing their responsibility of issuing the sheets to the candidates as other normal candidates in regular schools.
“It’s so astonishing that they have left the burden on us to buy the sheets in the last minutes and they are supposed to provide all the examination materials to all the candidates,” said Makokha.
The 25 candidates in the school for the visionally impaired are among the many students doing the examination under harsh conditions, considering most of them are using brails to write the exam.
Makokha however insists that it is not the first time this happens to the disabled candidates in his school, and he has been sending written proposals and even went to the Knec offices himself suggesting they be considered.
He added that the disabled have never been given an analysis of the results as they do to other regular schools, and this stigma demoralises his candidates and may even lead to their drop in performance.