Migori 学校反对合并参加 KPSEA 考试的学习者的考试中心

米戈里县的部分学校反对政府为参加肯尼亚小学教育评估 (KPSEA) 考试的学生人数少于 30 人的学校合并考试中心的提议。

A section of schools in Migori County have opposed proposals by the government to merge examination centres for schools with less than 30 learners sitting the Kenya Primary School Education Assessment (KPSEA) exams.

米戈里县的部分学校反对政府为参加肯尼亚小学教育评估 (KPSEA) 考试的学生人数少于 30 人的学校合并考试中心的提议。

Led by their headteachers and directors, the schools argued that some of the centres where they were merged are far away and will give learners a hard time sitting for the exams scheduled to start next week.

在校长和主任的带领下，这些学校辩称，合并后的一些中心距离很远，这会让学生很难参加定于下周开始的考试。

The school headteachers claimed that this would also affect learners’ performance and would force parents and schools to dig deep into their pockets to foot extra expenses that came with the merging.

学校校长声称，这也会影响学生的表现，并迫使家长和学校掏腰包来支付合并带来的额外费用。

Ruphine Oloo, a headteacher at Rose Hill School which has 22 candidates that are going to sit for the KEPSEA exams, said their learners would be required to go to another school which she claimed is far.

Rose Hill 学校的校长 Ruphine Oloo 表示，该学校有 22 名考生将参加 KEPSEA 考试，她表示，他们的学生将被要求去另一所她声称距离很远的学校。

“The distance is too far from the school and merging them at one place before transporting them to the examination centre is going to be a challenge. This would also mean that the school and parents spend extra,” Ms Oloo said.

“距离学校太远，在将他们运送到考试中心之前将他们合并到一个地方将是一个挑战。这也意味着学校和家长要花费额外的费用，”奥卢女士说。

According to the school heads and directors, a sudden change of environment would shock the learners who they claimed might end up performing poorly.

学校校长和主任表示，环境的突然变化会让学生感到震惊，他们声称最终可能会表现不佳。

“Learners are used to doing their examinations here and this is the first time we are being asked to take our learners to another examination centre. It is also a rainy season, and we don't know how it is going to be,” Mrs Rose Misori, a school director said.

“学习者习惯在这里进行考试，这是我们第一次被要求将学习者带到另一个考试中心。现在也是雨季，我们不知道情况会怎样，”学校校长 Rose Misori 女士说。

Their sentiments come at a time when the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) had issued a directive that primary and secondary schools with less than 30 candidates would not be registered as examination centres.

他们表达这一观点之际，肯尼亚国家考试委员会（KNEC）发布了一项指令，规定考生人数少于 30 人的中小学不得注册为考试中心。

Martin Awino, a director for Matoso Comprehensive School in Muhuru, Nyatike Sub-County said schools in remote areas would suffer the most as they were far apart.

尼亚蒂克县穆胡鲁马托索综合学校校长马丁·阿维诺 (Martin Awino) 表示，偏远地区的学校因相距较远而受到的影响最大。

“It would be more tiresome for learners having to trek long distances to reach examination centres,” Mr Awino said.

“对于必须长途跋涉到达考试中心的学习者来说，这会更累人，”阿维诺先生说。

Additionally, school heads pleaded with the government to treat children from both private and public schools equally.

此外，学校校长恳求政府平等对待私立学校和公立学校的孩子。

“All children belong to Kenya. You cannot say this is a private child and that one is a public child. They all belong to the government and hence need equal treatment,” Chilla Maxwell, a head teacher at Goldfields School said.

“所有儿童都属于肯尼亚。你不能说这个是私人孩子，那个是公共孩子。他们都属于政府，因此需要平等对待，”金矿学校的校长奇拉·麦克斯韦尔说。

He said they felt discriminated against when it came to government capitation to schools and distribution of books.

他说，在政府向学校按人头付费和分发书籍方面，他们感到受到了歧视。

Moreover, school representatives asked the government to address challenges which included inadequate resources in schools that made them struggle to keep up with the syllabus and prepare for KEPSEA examinations.

此外，学校代表要求政府解决一些挑战，包括学校资源不足，导致他们难以跟上教学大纲并准备 KEPSEA 考试。

Henry Okeyo who is a teacher at Othora Comprehensive School in Nyatike Sub-County said the learning digital gadgets that were brought to the school are not enough.

尼亚蒂克县奥索拉综合学校的老师亨利·奥克约 (Henry Okeyo) 表示，带到学校的学习数码产品还不够。

“This made learning very difficult. They were brought according to the number of learners that were there and now the population has increased,” Okeyo said.

“这让学习变得非常困难。他们是根据那里的学习者人数带来的，现在人数已经增加了，”奥克约说。