It is said that hard work pays and the way to ensure that schools in Nakuru continue performing well in national examinations is by ensuring the students study hard.
In achieving this goal, some of the primary schools in Nakuru are still conducting tuition. Some of the schools have now devised ways of making this possible (since it is illegal), by calling them remedial classes, which are conducted during the holidays.
Other schools now ask their students to wear home clothes and to meet in various churches for tuition to evade the authorities.
However, what has now got most parents angry is the amount of homework being given to their children. The said parents are now complaining that their children start doing their homework at 6 pm to around 11 pm without taking a break.
What is worse is that by the time it is 11 pm, the homework is not yet done, and the children are too tired to proceed with it, forcing them to wake up early in the morning to complete it.
According to a section of parents I spoke to, their children who are in either class five or six, are given too much homework with one of them stating that her child was given 20 mathematics questions, 15 Kiswahili questions, 10 Religious Education questions and 10 Science questions among other assignments which the child is expected to complete at home before the following day.
On the same note, another parent complained that once the issue is raised during school meetings where the parents are involved, most of his colleagues do not support it and as a result, they are forced to suffer silently.
Due to what some parents have termed as too much homework, others have stated that their children have started developing a negative attitude towards school.
Parents are right as too much homework is not healthy for the child. Homework, in my opinion, is simply meant to reinforce what the child was taught during the day.