I’ve heard many views concerning the school strikes that have hit our high schools in the last month. Everything from drug abuse, to an inadequate supply of teachers. In my view as an upstanding member of society who feels the pinch of buying a loaf of bread or losing my youth in traffic jams, I can only smile at the current situation. It is truly sad that a life has already been lost in this spate of strikes but the reality is the chickens have come home to roost.
Oh ye Mr/Ms/Mrs/Dr/Prof/other Minister its about time you realized that what you are seeing is your own making. When you hear those students chanting so and so must go, don’t you hear an echo of yourselves? Don’t you see a juvenile, sorry I take that back, don’t you see a uniformed peer doing exactly what you would do? But when you do it we don’t attribute it the use of drugs (though this cannot be completely ruled out with some of your lot), neither do we attribute it to an inadequate supply of police. Nay, when you are chanting, the clarion cry is that of injustice, that of grievances gone unheard.
I don’t encourage the insanity that these strikes are likely to deteriorate to but how else do these students express themselves? They don’t have sycophants like some of you to sing your songs and cry on your behalf, all they have are themselves. Neither do they have the clout to speak to the media and to the masses and go unpunished; all they have is the comfort of numbers, a sea of voices, a faceless crowd where standing out is not to your benefit.
What should be done? Well I’m not sure; you could go ahead demolish kiosks as has been proposed. I mean why not make a few more enemies in the name of fighting injustice? Why not render another family destitute in the name of creating a safe environment for students, if that family wants their child to have a safe environment (financially and meeting their needs) they should just send them to high school, where the Kenyan government and you oh honorable minister will look out for them.
But, oh venerable minister, there is an option in which Kenya is leading the rest of Africa in. Maybe, just maybe you could dialogue with them (for those of you who still are unaware of what this is, it is where two parties have a sit down and actually hear what the other to say.) But I understand how this could be hard, after all, dialogue with renegade national parties and diehard criminals is nothing compared to dialogue with these vile, aggressive, unruly masses called students (no, I wasn’t describing your playmates oh minister, you needn’t take offence.) After careful consideration I take back dialogue as a situation, instead lets just all blame the other person, then blame drugs and when that does not work we can look forward to you oh minister getting together with your playmates, (who if they went to school they will all attest to how difficult the general paper was) and discussing amongst yourselves, what ails our schools. Then after long pointless discussions of how in your time (for those who went to school) such cases were unheard off you’ll be ready for the next election where you’ll show the students that they are but amateurs in civil (this word is used for lack of a better, more ‘socially’ acceptable word)disobedience.
Dear minister, if you want to change this current situation then I recommend that you take legal action against the person to whom this letter is addressed and charges should be everything the students are being charged with (though I’m sure its not a comprehensive list, it is a start) I’m sure you’ll find the charges fit.
Yours truly
A patient sufferer of your incompetence, short sightedness and unrelenting ignorance
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
dear mr. education minister
I’ve heard many views concerning the school strikes that have hit our high schools in the last month. Everything from drug abuse, to an inadequate supply of teachers. In my view as an upstanding member of society who feels the pinch of buying a loaf of bread or losing my youth in traffic jams, I can only smile at the current situation. It is truly sad that a life has already been lost in this spate of strikes but the reality is the chickens have come home to roost.
Oh ye Mr/Ms/Mrs/Dr/Prof/other Minister its about time you realized that what you are seeing is your own making. When you hear those students chanting so and so must go, don’t you hear an echo of yourselves? Don’t you see a juvenile, sorry I take that back, don’t you see a uniformed peer doing exactly what you would do? But when you do it we don’t attribute it the use of drugs (though this cannot be completely ruled out with some of your lot), neither do we attribute it to an inadequate supply of police. Nay, when you are chanting, the clarion cry is that of injustice, that of grievances gone unheard.
I don’t encourage the insanity that these strikes are likely to deteriorate to but how else do these students express themselves? They don’t have sycophants like some of you to sing your songs and cry on your behalf, all they have are themselves. Neither do they have the clout to speak to the media and to the masses and go unpunished; all they have is the comfort of numbers, a sea of voices, a faceless crowd where standing out is not to your benefit.
What should be done? Well I’m not sure; you could go ahead demolish kiosks as has been proposed. I mean why not make a few more enemies in the name of fighting injustice? Why not render another family destitute in the name of creating a safe environment for students, if that family wants their child to have a safe environment (financially and meeting their needs) they should just send them to high school, where the Kenyan government and you oh honorable minister will look out for them.
But, oh venerable minister, there is an option in which Kenya is leading the rest of Africa in. Maybe, just maybe you could dialogue with them (for those of you who still are unaware of what this is, it is where two parties have a sit down and actually hear what the other to say.) But I understand how this could be hard, after all, dialogue with renegade national parties and diehard criminals is nothing compared to dialogue with these vile, aggressive, unruly masses called students (no, I wasn’t describing your playmates oh minister, you needn’t take offence.) After careful consideration I take back dialogue as a situation, instead lets just all blame the other person, then blame drugs and when that does not work we can look forward to you oh minister getting together with your playmates, (who if they went to school they will all attest to how difficult the general paper was) and discussing amongst yourselves, what ails our schools. Then after long pointless discussions of how in your time (for those who went to school) such cases were unheard off you’ll be ready for the next election where you’ll show the students that they are but amateurs in civil (this word is used for lack of a better, more ‘socially’ acceptable word)disobedience.
Dear minister, if you want to change this current situation then I recommend that you take legal action against the person to whom this letter is addressed and charges should be everything the students are being charged with (though I’m sure its not a comprehensive list, it is a start) I’m sure you’ll find the charges fit.
Yours truly
A patient sufferer of your incompetence, short sightedness and unrelenting ignorance
Oh ye Mr/Ms/Mrs/Dr/Prof/other Minister its about time you realized that what you are seeing is your own making. When you hear those students chanting so and so must go, don’t you hear an echo of yourselves? Don’t you see a juvenile, sorry I take that back, don’t you see a uniformed peer doing exactly what you would do? But when you do it we don’t attribute it the use of drugs (though this cannot be completely ruled out with some of your lot), neither do we attribute it to an inadequate supply of police. Nay, when you are chanting, the clarion cry is that of injustice, that of grievances gone unheard.
I don’t encourage the insanity that these strikes are likely to deteriorate to but how else do these students express themselves? They don’t have sycophants like some of you to sing your songs and cry on your behalf, all they have are themselves. Neither do they have the clout to speak to the media and to the masses and go unpunished; all they have is the comfort of numbers, a sea of voices, a faceless crowd where standing out is not to your benefit.
What should be done? Well I’m not sure; you could go ahead demolish kiosks as has been proposed. I mean why not make a few more enemies in the name of fighting injustice? Why not render another family destitute in the name of creating a safe environment for students, if that family wants their child to have a safe environment (financially and meeting their needs) they should just send them to high school, where the Kenyan government and you oh honorable minister will look out for them.
But, oh venerable minister, there is an option in which Kenya is leading the rest of Africa in. Maybe, just maybe you could dialogue with them (for those of you who still are unaware of what this is, it is where two parties have a sit down and actually hear what the other to say.) But I understand how this could be hard, after all, dialogue with renegade national parties and diehard criminals is nothing compared to dialogue with these vile, aggressive, unruly masses called students (no, I wasn’t describing your playmates oh minister, you needn’t take offence.) After careful consideration I take back dialogue as a situation, instead lets just all blame the other person, then blame drugs and when that does not work we can look forward to you oh minister getting together with your playmates, (who if they went to school they will all attest to how difficult the general paper was) and discussing amongst yourselves, what ails our schools. Then after long pointless discussions of how in your time (for those who went to school) such cases were unheard off you’ll be ready for the next election where you’ll show the students that they are but amateurs in civil (this word is used for lack of a better, more ‘socially’ acceptable word)disobedience.
Dear minister, if you want to change this current situation then I recommend that you take legal action against the person to whom this letter is addressed and charges should be everything the students are being charged with (though I’m sure its not a comprehensive list, it is a start) I’m sure you’ll find the charges fit.
Yours truly
A patient sufferer of your incompetence, short sightedness and unrelenting ignorance
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