Parents now want the government to extend the current school term to compensate for the time the children lost during the teachers’ strike.
The parents said that it would be hard for them to recover the school curriculum as the time will be too short.
Accord to Eunice Njeri, a parent, students of public primary schools lost a lot of time during the strike.
“Our children are the ones who will suffer, considering that they will eventually be forced to sit for the same papers as the other students in private schools,” she added.
She cited that they did not have any problem with two more weeks being added in the school curriculum.
Jane Wangechi, another parent, argued that it would be unfair to test them yet they had not be revising like their counterparts.
“They only had to rely on us yet some of us are not educated. We had to teach them in our own wisdom. Yet they cannot feel pity for them. I hope that the teachers would be more considerate next term,” she added.
However, the teachers interviewed said that they were not interested in the school term being extended.
“The parents should have been on the forefront fighting for our pay rise if they wanted their children in school. However, they left us alone,” said Maurice Kimemia, a teacher.