As communities continue to perform their traditional rites of passage which basically targets the boys, it is important the exercise should be taken as a continuation of school education programme which involve teachers.
According to parents and educators, the exercise should provide the most robust way of ensuring that there’s a continuous circuit of learning from school to the community, with initiates being equipped with the rich components of competency based education.
In many occasions, it has been the role of the clergy and semi educated that take charge of the process. With the evolving world, initiates should be equipped with the contents and demands of the curriculum.
Teachers, for this matter are well placed and should thus be incorporated.
For girls, the rite of passage model developed by Dr Susan Chebet (Former woman representative for Elgeiyo Marakwet) dubbed ‘Alternative Right of Passage ‘ should be embraced.
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The process encompasses seclusion of girls of a selected age bracket over the December holidays. The girls were tutored by both the professionals with experts on cultural backgrounds of the community they come from.
In this respect, the stakeholders of various communities are urgently implored upon to do a postmortem of their curricula and expand the contents so that their children are well equipped.
December holiday is a long period that our initiates can learn more of what they have been learning before.
By Makiche Lagat
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