Ugandan Parents have in the past month been enrolling their children to Kenyan schools since the institutions were reopened.
The parents from the neighbouring have taken to having their children study in Kenyan institutions as they are unsure when their government will allow pre-primary schools to resume classes.
The Nation noted that more than 400 children from Uganda have enrolled in Kenyan schools since last month.
In a single school, the headteacher in a school in the border town of Busia disclosed that they had enrolled over 100 children since reopening in January 2021.
"We are having a large number of children from Uganda enrolling in our school," the headteacher fo the school stated adding that a majority were joining the nursery.
The children have gotten into a routine where the Kenyan buses pick up the children from their homes every morning and take them to Kenya and return them to Uganda in the evening on a daily basis.
Schools have remained closed in Uganda since March 2020 when the government closed all educational institutions in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In an address on February 4, President Yoweri Museveni announced that semi-candidate classes – Primary Seven pupils, Senior Three and Senior Five students - would resume studies on March 1.
"The President said nothing about when the other classes would go back to school, leaving parents confused, while his wife Janet Kataha, the Education Minister, a day later said nursery schools teaching children aged three to six years will not re-open through the pandemic period," Ugandan outlet the Daily Monitor reported.
Parents in Uganda opted to enrol in Kenyan schools with the uncertainty in the county over a plan to stagger the opening of the institutions in the neighbouring countries.
In a plan by the county's Ministry of Education, all primary pupils and secondary school students are set to report to school, but in a staggered manner from March 1 to mid-June.
The country's officials stated that staggering of the schedule would prevent crowding, which could accelerate the spread of Covid-19.
