As high school students across the country continue to rebel against the school authorities and set ablaze what has otherwise been put at their disposal to facilitate their studies, one can only wonder what will put this menace to an end.
Suggestions and proposals have been made by the so-called education experts -who are by the way only heard of when there is a crisis in the education sector- but not many of their 'proposals' can really work.
Reason? Many of those suggestions have been adopted and tried before but have borne little if no fruits. We will, therefore, not dwell on what should be done to stop school unrests but rather what should not be done at all to end this madness this time round.
Reintroducing caning has been tossed around by the education experts but its chances of working are remote. Toying with this idea alone might see more dormitories, classrooms and so on go into ashes. High school students are big enough to be engaged in many ways and caning isn't one of them unfortunately.
The recently introduced 'Matiang'i guidelines has been touted as the main reason students have gone 'amok' in schools. While this could be true or otherwise, the idea of suspending these guidelines should not feature anywhere in our conversations, at least for now. It will be equivalent to giving in to these 'little brats' demands, which will see them even demand more by burning more dormitories.
Also, sacking or transferring Education CS Fred Matiang'i to another ministry, as is the typical Kenya way of addressing issues, won't work as such a measure has been taken before with little success. Let the captain that is Matiangi in this sector, manoeuvre and provide a solution to this madness. After all didn't he deliver digital migration successfully as ICT CS amidst several hurdles?