Private schools in Nakuru County have accused the ministry of education of wanting to kill the private education sector by showing open biasness in the form one selection process.
The Kenya Private Schools Association (KEPSA) Nakuru chapter says the government has no reason whatsoever of giving more preference to students in public schools over those in private schools.
KEPSA Nakuru branch deputy secretary general Agnes Mwihaki said that the government should have used an open process in the selection process especially for national schools slots.
Speaking to the press this morning at Nakuru town, Mwihaki said that it makes no sense to give a public school student who scored 380 marks a slot in a national school and leave out a private school student who scored 420 marks.
“The process of from one selection has shown outright biasness against private schools and this shows how the government is trying hard to bring the private school sector on its knees. You cannot continue denying our students slots in good schools despite them having the right marks just because they are from a private school,” said Mwihaki.
Mwihaki added that they fully support the decision by private schools association to move to court to challenge the selection process.
“If the ministry of education does not want to listen to us then let the courts decide if what has been done is fair,” she said.
KEPSA has threatened to withdraw all of its schools as national examination centres if the ministry of education does not listen to them.