Kenyan schooling creating a caste system

The brouhaha meeting the release of the KCSE exams was as loud as it is traditional. Even more exciting was the news that the leading candidate wants to president! Good luck lad. But the general performance should raise questions about a range of issues most notably how access to schooling does not necessary mean much today. It appears that unless one is able to put his or her kid through the hallowed halls of the top national schools or the obscenely expensive private schools, there's no hope of joining university which to many may be the only viable access to higher education. Form four school leavers around the country are now forced into the boda boda business, a venture that often leads them to drug use and early graves. Kenya is gradually creating a caste system where born poor you die poor. The schooling system is certainly not improving, rather it is exarcabating the gulf in class. Universal primary education is important but a critical mass with this basic education cannot sustain an economy. This may appear to change but will in fact remain the same.