Bomet governor Professor Hillary Barchok has said stakeholders in education were not adequately consulted before the implementation of Competence Based Curriculum.
Barchok said the teachers and parents who are now highly involved in the implementation were left behind in the initial stages making it difficult to implement CBC that requires both parental and teachers’ contribution.
“Most parents have raised concern about CBC this is because they are required to buy or supervise some activities the pupils have to undertake in the curriculum. I believe this has emerged because teachers were not prepared adequately,” Barchok said and called for its scrapping.
The governor was speaking during Public engagements by presidential working committee on education led by Professor Raphael Munavu held today at Tenwek boys high school. The stakeholders were drawn from the County government, the public, and officials from teachers’ unions.
During the session, Professor Raphael Munavu’s committee collected reviews on the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) from teachers, parents, and different education stakeholders.
Barchok also noted that parents are grappling with the scarcity of resources, which is even making the capital demand model a burden to parents.
“Our parents have faced challenges with the availability of resources to meet the demands of this model of learning; students are required to avail learning materials and equipment which are expensive.” Said Barchok.
“The direction we took with CBC is the wrong one and that is why we have complaints from everywhere.”
Parents called on the task force to shelve the new curriculum until proper structures were established terming it a waste of time and a scarcity of resources available.
David Kirui from Chebalungu described the CBC model as an imposed curriculum that was forced on students and teachers who hardly have a clue about it.
“Parents especially from humble homes and villages have been struggling to keep up with the requirements of CBC, materials needed are expensive and hardly found in the countryside, we are therefore urging the chairman of this task force to recommend the abolition of this system,” explained Kirui
Teachers in attendance faulted the implementation of the curriculum, citing that the curriculum did not adequately prepare them.