Amani National Congress leader Musalia Mudavadi has said once Kenya Kwanza alliance forms government, the Competency Based Curriculum will be scrapped off.
Speaking on Sunday, Mudavadi said the programme was implemented with a rush, and without consultation with stakeholders.
The ANC leader through his party said CBC system is a burden to parents in the country.
“The controversial Competence-Based-Curriculum of education will be scraped once the Ruto/Mudavadi government takes power in August,” he said on Twitter.
“ANC supremo @MusaliaMudavadi says CBC was hurriedly implemented without wide and genuine consultations with stakeholders and the new system is a big burden and an academic frustration to Kenyan parents.”
The pioneer class of the Competency-Based Curriculum is currently in Grade 5 and will transit to Grade 6 in April this year, which also marks the end of primary school.
In the curriculum, learners will sit Continuous Assessment Tests at the end of Grades 4, 5, and 6 to form the final mark at the end of primary school.
The progressive implementation of the new education system, the CBC suffered a major blow in 2021 after a case was filed in court challenging its implementation.
But long before the CBC found its way to the corridors of justice, tension, discomfort, and opposition had engulfed its implementation.
At the centre of the discontentment, was a section of parents angered with what they termed as increasing demands the system had weighed on them.
Unhappy parents took to social media narrating how they had been forced to learn how to make scarecrows and fashion clocks and even wheelbarrows out of cardboard.
It was not long before the anger crystalised into a legal suit with a lawyer challenging its continuing implementation. BY THE STAR