As the CBC review team tours different parts of the country, parents have said, children taking chicken to school is their main concern.
A few months ago a video surfaced online which showed children slaughtering a chicken.
“Teachers ask learners to come with gizzards, at the end of the day they end up collecting almost 200 pieces,” Kimaeti MCA Jackson Wambulwa said on TV.
“Our teachers have finished chicken in our homes, they ask children to bring chicken and they eat them,” Kimilili MP Didmus Barasa said then.
According to the basic education and curriculum framework, learners in Grades 4, 5 and 6 have 10 compulsory subjects.
Among them is home science where learners are exposed to basic knowledge and skills in planning, preparing and cooking healthy foods.
“This is a multi-disciplinary area of study that encompasses foods and nutrition, meal management, home management, clothing and textiles,” the framework reads.
The subject also focuses on first aid, personal hygiene, good grooming, adolescence and needlework.
The subject is more practical than theoretical.
“Emphasis is put on practical aspects to develop good personal habits,” it reads.
Ex curriculum reforms and implementation PS Fatma Chege previously told the Star that teachers who ask for ‘unreasonable’ items are overdoing it.
Chege said CBC aims at using locally available materials to solve societal problems.
“Is that teacher trained by our very own TSC? I doubt,” she said.
Chege also addressed a viral video that showed learners swimming on bare land.
The act of swimming falls under the Physical and Health Education subject in CBC.
Even though the curriculum does not specifically choose what games can be played during the subject.
“If the school has no swimming pool then why didn’t the teacher choose a different game? I was very disappointed by the people who were sending me that clip,” she said.
“Thereafter the learner is prepared for participation in specific games and sports and pursuing a healthy lifestyle,” the framework reads.
Once the learners move to the Junior secondary level, Home science becomes an optional subject.
