Children Flood Kenyan Schools To Get a Free Education
The
first day of classes at one of Kenya's best public schools would have
been enough to test the nerves of the most seasoned educator.
More than 3,000 new pupils showed up at Olympic Primary School in Nairobi that January afternoon, straining the ability of school leaders in the capital city— and in the 17,000 public schools across Kenya—to meet a bold promise of this nation's new president: access to free primary education.
Angry parents shouted at teachers, and some threatened to burn the principal's office down when they were told classes were overflowing and no more children would...
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