THERMOSTAT FLIP SIDE: WEIGHT OF IGNORANCE

After focusing on the murky conditions on moral decadence and marriage, today I would like to extrapolate the society and make out what is simmering underneath. Off matters ignorance and under performance in our country and crane my neck to see how the society thinks and rates itself. I f you're in this part of Africa and more so be a resident in Kenya, then you must be tempted to think that Kenya rears and breeds a failing generation. 


The national results were recently released to the chagrin of many. Students and parents alike were dumbfounded and weaned.  Some have taken their displeasure too far and endangered their lives. Others thought that was too much and ended their lives watching. Super majority are coming to terms with the facts that they will not have a chance to proceed forward to the next level. There is a looming rude shock of failing to attain the required cut off marks to bridge ahead. The little one with their small mind and ages don't know what to do with their lives. Pressure is mounted heavily on their lives as they look like the infamous black sheep in society. The fact that out of the total number of more than seven hundred thousands who sat for the national exam, only a palty forty eight percent will proceed forward is a hard fact to live with. Fifty two percent failed the exam. Our bone of contagion is not about pupil failing their basic level exams but rather the bedrock of education system in our current society. 


Children are the reflection of the society. If therefore our country can bring forth school going pupils who cannot read and understand fully after eight years of going through a curriculum, honestly, what does all these translate in terms of society and its education system? Who is the failure of another? Whereas we can point several corners as a cause for our children's failure, we must also admit that an apple does not fall too far from the tree. The community too is ingrained with long time ignorance and foolishness. There exist some level of lazyness and little emphasis placed on nature of performance. Lackluster kills many a parents and breeds in a Kenyan. They want things to be accomplished with zero bank on integrity and excellence. The funny quarter being that, even modern day preachers have bought into the weakness and them too preach half- hearted sermons that have more damage than value.


There exist great responsibility crisis  shift in society and people rarely take commitment to admit mistakes and injustices and settle for requisite solutions that angle well with the atrocities. The best that parents can do when their children paste dismal performance is to attack the teachers both verbally and physically. This nature of attempt in dealing with problems is highly misplaced and baffling on equal wavelength. Pursuing heads and beating the silly upfront is disrespect of high order. Despite being debilitating, it is not the vocal point of the solution. Real nagging and pressing matter should be addressed by all cost. These Prevaricating heads must learn to use common sense even if it is not common.  


Attach the ignorance embedded in our society amongst people not the associated affiliates. Society needs to come to terms with its rottenness and seek laudable, proven professional ways of solving problems. Let the country be serious and do away with this hide and seek childish methods and give us a competent, credible system of education. The weight of ignorance is too heavy to carry. An ignorant country is a gripped nation. The level of ignorance is high and consuming fast more lives than the dreaded HIV/AIDS related cases. The society being you and I, let us choose to elevate our level of knowledge and stop third grade colonization of mind.