Kenya: Teachers' Strike Will Hurt Beyond the Class Days Lost

3 October 2015

While the adverse impact of the month-long crippling teachers' strike is obvious in interruption to the school calendar, it is the intensive hopelessness that it has now brought to the examination candidates that is worrying.

This is chiefly because our education system emphases grades, which places increased pressure on pupils' stress levels. Even teachers' performance and promotions are now being determined by grades.

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