**Why Every Kenyan Student Graduating From Form 4 Should Know How To Drive** In USA, the is a basic program called drivers Ed whereby when student turn 14.5yrs, they are allowed to learn how to drive, they are given learners permit, which eventually will become their drivers license. By 16-18, they can drive by their own. It’s a program subsided by the state through the County education system. How can it happen in Kenyan school system? I know it’s hard to imagine how to implement the program but I think every county can begin a system to offer an extra class as CERTIFICATION toward the last (2) years in secondary education (Form 3&4). I don’t know how to get funding but CDF, County funds can be utilized. Why am I reasoning this way? Think about this. Kenya massively produces 100s of students with D+,C+,B-. Students who will potentially languish in poverty in the villages and be forgotten. They will never join the university expensive education system because they can’t afford it. So let’s say student (A) had basic Welding or Carpentry, skills (skill that I strongly believe can be seriously taught in secondary system) and he knows how to drive, don’t you think that such student can begin a simple business to sustain him/herself? If the student wants to work for someone, let’s say be a driver, he can save some cash, and advance his driving skills (Truck Driver) or Technical skills in the Polytechnics to better levels. I am a proponent of Tech colleges that will produce ready to work students. Forget the government; it’s not going to solve the challenges of millions of youth. Where are serious governors to think critically and put such policies in place? They are not hard…it’s just the desire to begin them. In the long term kenya will have safe drivers & safe roads. The ripple effects cannot even be imagined.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 00:05:33 +0000
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