Parents wait for information at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County on September 6, 2024 following a fire incident that claimed the lives of 21 pupils.
The case of Hillside Academy should be addressed in the context of parental guidance.
Is it not time to debate on the age and right time for children joining boarding schools?
Is it not the right time now for the country, through the education sector, to interrogate deeply on the necessity of primary boarding schools?
The horror that visited Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni, Nyeri County on Thursday night in a dormitory fire that has so far claimed 21 lives should revive a debate that has for years being going on quietly on whether we really need to take our children, who are at the age of being in primary schools, to boarding schools.
