Fairness concerns on Kenya’s school placement system

 Grade Nine candidates start KJSEA English language at Moi Nyeri Complex Primary School in Nyeri county on October 27, 2025.

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Behind every examination paper lies a quiet dream: of belonging, of opportunity, of a fair chance. When I think back to my own school selection years ago, choices were made around kitchen tables; imperfect, slow, occasionally unfair, but undeniably human. There was space for conversation, for persuasion, for hope.

Today, that space exists where electricity meets the internet: in school labs, cyber cafés or on borrowed devices.

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