Economist on Bridge Schools

[RV Pundit]

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Totally agree. Bridge should be nurtured not condemned.
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21715665-east-african-crackdown-bridge-international-academies-hopelessly-misguided-emerging?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170126n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/A/8705207/n

[hk]

Totally agree. Bridge should be nurtured not condemned.
http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21715665-east-african-crackdown-bridge-international-academies-hopelessly-misguided-emerging?cid1=cust/ednew/n/bl/n/20170126n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/A/8705207/n

I like the way bridge schools focus on educating kids not on expensive structures. All the bridge schools I have seen are mabati built and school concentrates on the most important thing educating students. Kenya should go a step further and have a voucher system and parents can select which school to take their kids paying using the vouchers.

[RV Pundit]

Exactly. That will unblock the potential of private investment in social sectors. The same with health and any other of the "public services" except very few like roads/police. Gov and Parliament should do a cost per student/person/citizen for every service - and people should select where - and gov should send the money there. Gov then become the regulator ensuring basic standards are met.

I like the way bridge schools focus on educating kids not on expensive structures. All the bridge schools I have seen are mabati built and school concentrates on the most important thing educating students. Kenya should go a step further and have a voucher system and parents can select which school to take their kids paying using the vouchers.

[Omollo]

This is one of the reasons I feel Matiang'i is a publicity seeking Jubilee whacko. First on Bridge Schools.

Why is the Ministry of Matiang'i denying Bridge attending Kenyan children the same money he is dishing out to the so called "government" schools? Is it because the parents of these kids do not pay VAT when they buy Brookside milk? Why the discrimination against those kids?

Why don't they get textbooks and other equipment handed to them?

I am saying if there was fairness in Education we would see tremendous achievement.

The thieves and cartels in Education have ganged up to frustrate Bridge schools in Uganda. Parents are however seeing through the crap. They pay a small amount per month which is properly used. At the end of the day most parents are pulling kids out of Matiang'is schools in to Bridge. I convinced my workers to pull their kids from Matiang'i's schools in to Bridge