We will scrap CBC when elected – Mudavadi

Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi has said once the Kenya Kwanza alliance forms the government, the Competency-Based Curriculum will be scrapped.

Speaking on Sunday, Mudavadi said the programme was implemented in a rush, and without consultation with stakeholders.

The ANC leader through his party said the CBC system is a burden to parents in the country.

"The controversial Competence-Based-Curriculum of education will be scraped once the Ruto/Mudavadi government takes power in August," he said on Twitter.

"ANC supremo @MusaliaMudavadi says CBC was hurriedly implemented without wide and genuine consultations with stakeholders and the new system is a big burden and an academic frustration to Kenyan parents."

The pioneer class of the Competency-Based Curriculum is currently in Grade 5 and will transit to Grade 6 in April this year, which also marks the end of primary school.

In the curriculum, learners will sit Continuous Assessment Tests at the end of Grades 4, 5, and 6 to form the final mark at the end of primary school.

With the progressive implementation of the new education system, the CBC  suffered a major blow in 2021 after a case was filed in court challenging its implementation.

But long before the CBC found its way to the corridors of justice, tension, discomfort, and opposition had engulfed its implementation.

At the centre of the discontentment, was a section of parents angered with what they termed as increasing demands the system had weighed on them.

Unhappy parents took to social media narrating how they had been forced to learn how to make scarecrows and fashion clocks and even wheelbarrows out of cardboard.

It was not long before the anger crystalised into a legal suit, with a lawyer challenging its continuing implementation.