WHAT BRINGS THE DIFFERENCE IN PUBLIC SCHOOL

Form ones admitted under a tree at Ngieni CDF mixed day secondary school.

As other schools celebrate the 2015 KCSE results, students at Ngieni Secondary school are seeing future impossible due to the poor learning environment.

Form one students at Ngieni mixed and day school are forced to attend classes under shades due to class construction contract crisis. The class had to be constructed in December last year but the project was delayed upto February this year. The area Mp Joe Mutambu had to intervene for the project to be started though too late. The school prinipal Mr. Musyoka says that it has been a problem to admit students under a tree and teaching them under a tree. The "under tree" classrooms are shifted from one place to another according to the position of the shadows. Teachers teach the "blackboardless" class orally, with a big problem arising when it comes ty o mathematics and other sciences that require calculations. The class project has already started and is expected to be complete and useable by the end of march. "It's challege to admit students without a class, this is why some parents may have feared to bring their pupils to this school. So far we have five form ones only but we are expecting more." Says The principal. The school has a total of 28 students (form 1-4), 2 trained teachers and 3 non-trained teachers. THe principal says that it has been a problem to run the school with this small number of students since the teachers have to be paid. " This is what brings the difference between public and private and school especially in starter schoools." Added the principal. The school has neither office nor store room and the classroom are used as the store