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More than 4,201 pupils were forced to repeat the class 8 in Bureti District in the year 2009. Making the shocking revelations, the District Education Officer (DEO) Willaim Okumu said head teachers had employed uncouth methods of forcing students to repeat classes. He said the exercise had resulted in having 21-year olds seating in standard eight, a situation he said was not good. He urged head teachers to consider the number of times a student had repeated classes and their age before subjecting them to a repeat in standard 8.

“Some candidates are too old to be in our institutions of learning,” he said. “These 21-year pupils in your primary schools are young adults. When in their classes, consider
that you are talking to a fellow adult and not a student. They know the price of shaving kits!” He told a gathering of head teachers who met for postmortem after Bureti District performed dismally in last year’s KCSE.

Benjamin Kimuyu’s winning formula for producing the best mathematics class in last year’s KCSE examination may just be what teachers need to take their students to the top in successive national examinations. Instead of resulting to cheating and accepting bribes for student registration, teachers need to consider their mode of teaching and how best their strategies can be used to produce excellent performing students.

According to a research by J K Too and I N Kimengich of Moi University, boys tend to overshadow girls in mathematics performance in both private and co-educational schools and public mixed schools. Teachers therefore need to take a key interest in the differences between girls and boys’ learning styles.
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