Principals and teachers of various national schools write admission letters to pupils during a past Form One selection exercise. [Photo/plive.co.ke]
Menengai High School is on the spot after it was accused of refusing to issue letters of admission to for one student.
The public school, which is situated in Nakuru, is said to have refused to issue the letters, despite the students having been selected to join the school.
The parents have further alleged that the school is working with outside cartels to deny the selected students and instead award the letters to other students.
They (parents) were required to send a text message to 20042, a number issued by the Ministry of Education, and the resulting response indicated their children had been selected to join the school.
However, according to Menengai High School Principal Richard Ngatia, who spoke to a local daily, the text message parents received from the number issued by the ministry was not authentic.
He further added that the number was only used for selection of county and extra-county schools, and that number the parents used should have clearly indicated the name of the candidate and the schools that had selected them.
According to the ministry of education, a total of 647,800 students will join 6,858 sub-county schools as the government moves to implement free day secondary education.
All Form One students selected from all categories of schools will report to their respective schools on January 9 and not later than January 12.
All the 10,738 candidates who scored 400 marks and above have been placed in national schools.