It’s a disservice denying youth chance to grow and toughen up
Students of Mutira Girls Secondary School performing Ndumo dance during a past music festival. My advice to the spoilt city parents is: Allow your offspring to go to Chebisaas and Mutira. It is good for them and it is good for you. FILE PHOTO | ANTHONY NJAGI | NATION MEDIA GROUP
There is no doubt in my mind that there are many city children who will not be taking up their desks at Mutira and Chebusaas.
The average middle class 14-year-old has never left the gate of the home unaccompanied.
The motherly tendency to shield their sons from real life, on the other hand, is in my opinion, catastrophic.
Children of city slickers have been admitted to some rural schools, setting off a round of discussions and not an insignificant amount of outrage and mirth.
A child born in the high-rises of Kileleshwa, Nairobi, attended Msingi Bora kindergarten (where they are enrolled as soon as they conceived because the waiting list is long) before attending primary school in a quiet suburb, is suddenly expected to acquire a plastic bucket, and a metal box and present themselves to the headmistress of Mutira Girls Secondary School in Kirinyaga or AIC Chebisaas Girls Secondary School in Nandi County.
