Photo of Small Kenyan Kids Waiting Outside School Gate at 5:30am Causes a Stir Online

I blame the parents. How can you take a kinder-garden students to school at 5.30 am. Even university classes do not start at 5.30am. Take the kids to local public school until they are standard 4. Many doctors, professors and wakubwa went to public schools without shoes. Most of them worn shoes for the first time when they were joining form 1. Hata English they started speaking when they joined form 1. That did not prevent them from achieving their goals in life.

@kenya true.Tye parents r to blame here not the schools.Wazazi wadrop the kids there either juu they want to go to work or some shitty things but i doubt the school. starts at that time.Also don't blame the watchman juu pengine kazi yake nikufungua gate from 6:30 or 7am for instructions.So let's wait to hear what went wrong but i can guarantee you the problems is the parent nonsense.Kinder is supposed to start from 8:30-3pm not 5:30 n Actually from kinder to class 3;starts 8:30-3 then 4-8 7:45-3:30p

Most of you commenting here either mko wajinga or you are pretenders. Thing is, there are hundreds of thousands of people, both men and women who struggle to eke out a living, often having to accept extremely low paying jobs that require them to report very early in the morning. If they don’t, they starve or lose the little roof over their head. So they choose the lesser devil - dumping their kids at school like this. Very terrible for the kids & I hate it but what to do? This is what Trump meant when he called Africa a shithole .... it can’t even take care of it’s most vulnerable. The average Kenyan legislator is an idiot

Come to kayole n see kids wake up at 3am to go to school.this is torture. Classes begin at 6am.#diwopa #new light # lakewood schools.shame on the ministry involved

For heaven's sake the Limuru we know?, where mother's, grammars, great grammars of cold generation is..., I think most of this parents are sleeping. Wake the government, start from the Chiefs, they are eyes of the government, if they Gail walk to the DOs offices, let them know that you have voices. Let them talk on your behalf to the government. This is punishing innocent children. I wonder if this children had drunk or eaten anything, and further they had slept late after pages and pages of home work. Reforms starts from you.you better die fighting for your rights, rather stay on fearwhen waiting to see such kids go through such a life.

Are we getting soft,or more caring? Dont blame the parents.They are not stupid. If I feel that my kids does not have to wake up at 5am, I will not let that happen-school or no school.To me waking up that early does not seem to be the problem.
Other than for security reasons, I see no problem.Kids wake up that early,after agood night's sleep.
As for the watchman,is this the only time he has been late?IF its atrend,and puts the kids at risk, fire him.

Breaks my heart

Hehehehe if ur struggling to raise 1kid why have another n another one anyways.U can struggle with one hata kuquit job ndio ukae nayeye juu yr needs n one child kid will b less hussle but kama unazaa tu kama paka:nguruwe ur the one to blame for the upkeep of yr kids not the gavament so wr to blame as parents in most cases.

That’s just gambling with your kids life. This ain’t the 80s or even 90s when kids could be unsupervised with minimal danger. Won’t judge anyone but I would never put any kid ,leave alone mine, in that situation. Sleep is one of the major fundamentals of healthy growth. I bet you lots of hours are wasted in school daily due to fatigue.

@kenya yes u can enjoy this activity with responsibility yaani pata kamoja or tuwili which ur sure u will bring up then castrate yourself
fungisha wife n trust me u will enjoy this leisure more without blaming the gavament