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School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« on: July 24, 2016, 09:07:45 PM »
I've been trying to understand this crazy phenomenon in Kenya. Why are kids burning school dormitories? When we were in school the worst we could think of did not come close to this. Which demons are causing this madness? Children graduating from the affected Kenya schools in this time risk being placed on probation for the rest of their lives. Does this lawlessness come from what the kids see in politicians, dancers, celebs and even religious leaders?
Celebratory violence: 2017 crime invented to justify killings to prevent Raila from becoming PORK. http://www.nipate.com/download/file.php?id=4244

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2016, 11:06:26 PM »
I was just about to start the thread. This is getting out of hand. I hope Ruto does not blame CORD:

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2016, 11:16:15 PM »

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2016, 11:21:24 PM »

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2016, 11:44:23 PM »

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2016, 08:45:02 AM »
Matiangi should resign as education secretary. Uhuru should set up a team to listen to students grievances and another team to prosecute those who have committed criminal act. It's time like this that one misses former first lady Lucy kibaki at least she would have said something.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2016, 10:52:08 AM »
Quote from: Daily Bread on July 24, 2016, 09:07:45 PM
I've been trying to understand this crazy phenomenon in Kenya. Why are kids burning school dormitories? When we were in school the worst we could think of did not come close to this. Which demons are causing this madness? Children graduating from the affected Kenya schools in this time risk being placed on probation for the rest of their lives. Does this lawlessness come from what the kids see in politicians, dancers, celebs and even religious leaders?

Influence of social media.

Our young'uns are slowly but surely beginning to understand how the world works. They are seeing lawlessness in our politicians, headmasters, etc. for what it is and what it represents.

They're beginning to understand that they can and must challenge a corrupted authority.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2016, 11:46:31 AM »
Kids today are smarter. More aware of corruption, useless teachers, self-serving systems. They need vision, guidance, hope. Hard to see that in the world today. They don't respect the law and use that to justify their misguided activism. Hard to distinguish which forms of civil disobedience are authentic or implanted.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2016, 11:49:18 AM »
The whole concept of having wholesome boarding schools for high school kids need to be examined. These teenagers should be at home with their parents. Boarding schools should be very rare and for special case. In kenya they are the rule; not the exception.Gov should make all schools day and boarding. It should also not encourage picking of students 1,000kms away from their home. I think in every part of kenya there is a decent walking or slight travel distance school that would eliminate all these boarding nonsense.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2016, 01:01:16 PM »
100% agreed.
It's time to change.
School districts should be in charge of schools with education dept providing guidelines only.

Quote from: RV Pundit on July 25, 2016, 11:49:18 AM
The whole concept of having wholesome boarding schools for high school kids need to be examined. These teenagers should be at home with their parents. Boarding schools should be very rare and for special case. In kenya they are the rule; not the exception.Gov should make all schools day and boarding. It should also not encourage picking of students 1,000kms away from their home. I think in every part of kenya there is a decent walking or slight travel distance school that would eliminate all these boarding nonsense.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2016, 01:07:37 PM »
Our secondary education is messed up. You lock up impressionable teenagers raving with hormones in a school compound for 3 months and don't expect to see chaos. The same case with our policing model - where you send somebody from Busia to police people in Mandera - then send the guy from Mandera to police the guy in Busia. This doesn't happen to teachers and most teachers are the pillar of society. You'd expect cops to be the same way.

These kind of nonsense do not happen in most countries. Fix the boarding nonsense in secondary. Fix the police transfer policy. This is so commonsensical like devolution/majimbo but it will take kenyans another 50yrs before they realize they should have done this long time ago.

We need to examine some of the colonial model we inherited from the Brits that were designed for small minority to lord over the country and discard them.

Quote from: Parkerpen on July 25, 2016, 01:01:16 PM
100% agreed.
It's time to change.
School districts should be in charge of schools with education dept providing guidelines only.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2016, 04:57:55 PM »
I rarely agree with Pundit but here his punditry is betther than his banditry. I agree entirely. Boarding schools should be abolished until all Kenyan teens have been cleansed, and not with mursik but sosiat. As a policy all kids should be relocated to schools nearest to their homes for at least four years. Like police, and strangely, Pundit is right on the money, kids should be placed where mum and dad and uncle see them daily. Police brutality and murders are fuelled by the fact that they work far from home among strangers they couldn't care less about. Please pray for Uhuru and Ruto's Kenya. This is what you get when lawlessness leads from the top.
Celebratory violence: 2017 crime invented to justify killings to prevent Raila from becoming PORK. http://www.nipate.com/download/file.php?id=4244

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #12 on: July 25, 2016, 05:09:55 PM »
RV Pundit has a big point.
Kenya still lives under the colonial structure. It is still benefiting the ruling elite and hence the resistance to devolution.
Also do not forget the ruling class does not send its children to public schools. So the Ministry of Education is under govt officials who make education policy for the masses but not for their own children. Kenya has hit a deadend and the ruling class corrupt ways now reflects itself with the behaviour of the school children.

Quote from: Daily Bread on July 25, 2016, 04:57:55 PM
I rarely agree with Pundit but here his punditry is betther than his banditry. I agree entirely. Boarding schools should be abolished until all Kenyan teens have been cleansed, and not with mursik but sosiat. As a policy all kids should be relocated to schools nearest to their homes for at least four years. Like police, and strangely, Pundit is right on the money, kids should be placed where mum and dad and uncle see them daily. Police brutality and murders are fuelled by the fact that they work far from home among strangers they couldn't care less about. Please pray for Uhuru and Ruto's Kenya. This is what you get when lawlessness leads from the top.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #13 on: July 25, 2016, 05:27:27 PM »
Quote from: Empedocles on July 25, 2016, 10:52:08 AM
Quote from: Daily Bread on July 24, 2016, 09:07:45 PM
I've been trying to understand this crazy phenomenon in Kenya. Why are kids burning school dormitories? When we were in school the worst we could think of did not come close to this. Which demons are causing this madness? Children graduating from the affected Kenya schools in this time risk being placed on probation for the rest of their lives. Does this lawlessness come from what the kids see in politicians, dancers, celebs and even religious leaders?

Influence of social media.

Our young'uns are slowly but surely beginning to understand how the world works. They are seeing lawlessness in our politicians, headmasters, etc. for what it is and what it represents.

They're beginning to understand that they can and must challenge a corrupted authority.
You are probably right.  Back in the days, you waited for the local copy of Daily Nation in the library, which you got to read one week later, for information about the world.  Today, Cyprian Nyakundi can release real time information of how your heady is moving big funds while you scrape by on murram.  There is no other difference I can think of.
"I freed a thousand slaves.  I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
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« Reply #16 on: July 25, 2016, 08:21:43 PM »
They are now resorting to all manner of trickery to get some days off. Matiangi should not have extended the term without half term. The problem is just the half term vacation.

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #17 on: July 25, 2016, 10:14:46 PM »
THese are the future MCAs, MPigs, Senators, etc.....
Welcome to the new wild wild west....
Only in Kenya!!

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Re: School burning in Kenya- Langata is up in flames
« Reply #18 on: July 25, 2016, 10:49:58 PM »
Another one. I estimate about 15 tonight only going by the prevailing pattern

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