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fire dorms
I am so much confused about these fire cases in schools over kenya. In my last tweet i asked Cui bono or Cui prodest? Okay, let's forget the raging teens and the testosteron driven trouble makers... It is not their scale.
We, as parents, were deciding to give our son to Rongai Boys. Both of us, meaning parents, were totally convinced by their motto saying "Give us a boy, we give back a man." We took ourselves under this spell and also being the wish of our son we decided to pay for him for there... Even ackowledging and accepting their quite weird "no connect" principle... Which is, in a very legal context, says that they are taking over full responsibility of the kid... FULL responsibility, because in the case they are to block any communication between the kids and parents, it MEANS an overall and FULL responsibility-
Okay, i am an expat with a Kenyan family... So obviusly things were guessed to go flowing smooth...
But not. When that fire case at Rongai Boys occured, the school was in a hurry to text to all parents to replace the damaged goods, like mattrasses, blankets etc...
So now, please dont take me wrong, as an expat in Kenya i earn more than enough to buy a mattrass, comforter, blanket or whatever...
it doesnt go about personal losses. But as an expat , I think I have the right to ask the management about the insurance policies the school might have had.
This post is not about me, as an expat parent... This post is about my fellow Kenyans who are working hard and are bleeding out to provide those extraordinary high fees, like at Rongai, 100 000 bobs for a year...
Okay, my concern is not attached with th the fire cases , not directly, I mean, but more with the school reactions... Just like us... We received the text message that certain items of affected kids MUST be replaced... mattrass, blankets for average but even going forward to towels and toothbrushes... Good.
It means, of course, additional burdens on my fellow Kenyans, and in their case, especially having a younger kid at home, it raises an unsolvable obstacle...
However, and it can be easily proved by law, for any damage of private properties having occured thru any maleficant actions within the premises of a school or in its next neighbourhood or at any premises the parents made any schooling and/or tuitoning contract with, is taken and foretaken as the responsibility of the school in concern.
So, the low profile of the affected schools were to publish that
a) they did everything to their best knowledge to prevent such emergency cases,
b) driven by natural law acknowledgemnts they declare to reimburse of the losses of any of their students...
1. So, why to overburden the hardworking families, having paid a fortune for school fees?
2. i definitely know families where both the husband and the wife used to be working to their bleeding edges to provide school fees
As the fire case happened in official school term and as the same case were proven to be of human originn (not act of God, nor of vis maior) the school MUST overtake all personal liabilities and stop milking parents again... They took full responsibility then now they have to show full responsibility.
P.S.: i had written this post as a mzungu but taking the interest of all my fellow Kenyans - -- Too late, this Jumbotweet has auto-destructed --
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