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Absorbing eligible pupils

Government started offering reception classes for the first time in 2015. This decision was intended to absorb all eligible children and compliment the efforts of the private sector, which had dominated the sub sector for a prolonged period of time. It was never the intention of government to elbow the private sector out of business.

If somehow the participation of government in the provision of reception classes has resulted in the emasculation of the private sector, this outcome was accidental rather than planned .It was an attempt predicated upon a desire to cater for the poor children whose parents could not afford paying school fees at private schools.

The idea of having government sponsored reception classes was a bold and ambitious development considering the challenge of resource constraints, which plagued public schools. Already public schools from primary to secondary schools were battling with clearing a backlog of classrooms and provision of adequate of critical teaching and learning inputs. To compound the situation, there was no budget provision to replicate the private sector’s model of establishing stand-alone kindergarten schools.

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