May 26th 2021 at 10:15:00 GMT +0300
Finally, the excitement of the 2020 KCSE exam results are behind us. For 893 students who scored straight “A”, the glow will last a lifetime.
But despite everyone, including Professor Magoha, saying that your grade does not define you, the students who did not score C+ and above consider themselves as having flunked. Their families and society think so too. Truth be told, we live in a society that defines you by your grade. When it became public that the CJ nominee attained a pass at law school, tongues went wagging.
We want to do well at school for an obvious reason: because – as we’re often told – it’s the primary route to doing well at life. Few of us are in love with the A grades themselves – we want them because we’re understandably interested in one day having a fulfilling career, a pleasant house and the respect of others.
THE STANDARD By
Edwin Wanjawa |
January 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
All schools in Kenya reopen from today after nearly a year of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. This marks a seminal moment in the fight against Covid-19. Will it lead to an increased rate of infection? Yes. Will it result in school closures and the return of remote learning in some cases? Yes. Anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling themselves.
The insidious nature of the disease – the fact that it is transmitted under a veil of asymptomatic carriers – makes containment extremely difficult, and eradication next to impossible without a lockdown of gargantuan proportions, one that comes with too big a risk to livelihoods and the economy. There is no alternative but to reopen society gradually while dousing fires where they occur.