Maranda High school has topped. Wow!
Both Alliances, Starehe Boys' then Mang'รบ. Who leveled the playing field? 11.8 points by a school. This is dexterity and commendation should be in order. St. Peters' Seminary has listed the top candidate, Job Nalianya.
I faced this day years ago; the day of redemption. I remember that day, anxious and apprehensive, my heart yielding to panic before announcement of results. There was an inkling of my expected grade(s), but needed an official confirmation, a stamp that would decide the path i would take in future.
Before joining the top-rated high school in the country, i knew i would end up being a neurosurgeon, thanks to my infatuation with Ben Carson's paperbacks. Four years later it obvious I was good in literature, theater plays and spoken word. I had no love for Chemistry and basic Biology was a bore.
I will graduate with Bsc. Actuarial Science, finish CFA and CSIA papers, and rot in the realm of securities. The country has lost a brilliant movie director, script writer and actor. Our parents want their children in blue-chip companies; not rolling tapes for entertainment purposes. No one wants to understand that informal sector is oiling the bulk of the country's economy. It is unfortunate.
That is why many are pursuing courses irrelevant with their liking. The society has been forced to embrace worthiness of white-and-blue-collar jobs, disregarding the very cradle for employment; doing what you best can to the benefit of the society. If what you are doing fails your desires, it is obvious very little effort is put for the desired result.
Students are oiling their brains day and night, swotting to weird extremities, their hearts beating achingly to one desire; that of getting a degree in various institutions of higher learning. That is why constituent colleges have sprung up, with roof-top institutions peddling degrees to eager just-out-of-fourth-form junkies, irrespective of their dull grades. And its also reason why weird and ludicrous courses have jammed the lecture rooms.
Not everyone is celebrating today. There are those who have disappointed their parents, and the society. Those parents that stared directly into their eyes just before KCSE exams, and reminded them how hard they have worked to ensure their smooth sail in high school. The moment they will register Catty or Doggy results, they will feel a pang of guilt. The nearest tall tree and a rope will be the absolution to the guilt. Case Study: Suicides due to recently announced KCPE results.
Parents have forgotten diploma and certificate courses. They want that pride; my daughter is doing law in University of Something, my son is pursuing medicine and so on. Everybody is full of bull nowdays. Great personalities did not tap their greatness from grades, but by conviction of what they knew of themselves. Those who were not eligible for University and had passion for, let's say Engineering, commenced with certificate from local polytechnics, then a dip from a college, post dip before securing a place in varsity for their degrees.Do not fake your disability to achieve on your full potential on drab grades, that is pathetic reasoning.
Those who have A's and parents will never allow them to take arts, i feel you. Dont despair though, do what you can do with the course you will pursue, but dont let your dream die. Join a chorister, do a musical, enroll for dancing classes and perhaps, perhaps your parents will value your desires.
Dont join varsity for a hogwash course so that everybody in the village will respect you. Join Maseno for Soil Science, or Moi for Ethics and after graduating, the respect will dissipate. If you are not good in books, and you appreciate you weakness, be Oliech, be Mariga, be Karume. Earn em dollars in other ways, play football, make tracks your home, play with numbers in streets, marry a microphone and be an MC. Be anything you want to be, let no goals be impended by results.
And perhaps we can all be termed as winners!
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