Education stakeholders across the 47 counties are busy looking for long lasting solutions to tame student riots that are threatening to sink the country's education system.
Over 100 secondary schools around the country have been shut after students went on rampage and destroyed school property. Several of the students have also been arrested over their oversight roles in these incidents.
Some students are reported to have burned down their schools to avoid mock exams. However, there are those who have raised complaints of ill-treatment by teachers and school administration as the cause of the school wrangles.
A section of the education stakeholders are now of the view that students should be counseled. Others feel that errant students should be suspended or even completely expelled. But honestly, the problem started when the ministry abolished caning in schools.
Here now, the same education ministry expect students to negotiate with their teachers how and when exams are to be administered. This was just a western culture that was unheard of in Kenya. To end the whole debate, let the cane be returned to secure the future of the Kenyan child.