Save Kenya from ridicule in how we handle schooling amid crisis

The Ministry of Education has come under stinging criticism for how it has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. While it was right in closing down schools in March when the virus was first reported in Kenya, subsequent handling of the docket amid the crisis has been brought to question.

And in an unprecedented move, an international newspaper has ridiculed Kenya for cancelling the entire academic calendar for the year 2020. With confessions from none other than Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha foreshadowing that schools may not reopen in the New Year, the future of Kenyan school children is in jeopardy. While the pandemic has disrupted all aspects of life, it should not be doom and gloom for the education sector.