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State House Girls High School volleyball fans cheer their team against St George’s Girls Secondary School. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
Since pre-independence, the narrative of academic excellence in the country has been narrow, rigid and relentlessly pegged on scholarly brilliance.
Success smelled like fresh ink on national examination papers, standard uniforms and the solitary pursuit of white-collar professions like medicine, law or engineering. If a teenager could run a 100m dash in 10 seconds, display football talent with a home-made ball or paint a masterclass that evoked raw emotions, it was treated as a charming extracurricular footnote and never a main event.
However, the pioneer cohort of the Competency-Based Education (CBE) system is changing the narrative, albeit with teething problems facing its implementation.
