I think Kenyan parents look at discipline (and I don't mean corporal punishment) as lack of customer care and lack of respect for the principle "the customer is always right." So they don't collaborate with the school in raising their children. When the children are caught misbehaving, the parents come to dispute with the school, not to discuss with the school, because they want to enforce the fact that as customers, they are always right.
This is why I've kept saying that philosophy matters. If you're taking a kid to school because you can afford it, not because it's your duty; and you treat the school as customer service, rather than as education, it will make a difference in how you behave as a parent at the school. I kind of feel nothing for families because when we try to have conversations like these, Kenyan adults would rather listen to neoliberal propaganda from the media.
Like I said on
@theelephantinfo, I'm at a loss for words when it comes to the Kenyan collective mind. What we say we want is not what we actually do in action. But the only people required to prove "relevance" of theory are the teachers. When media spew junk about "learner-centered" nonsense, nobody requires them to prove the benefit of what they're saying.
One of my first videos on
#MaishaKazini was that education is not customer service. Link in the thread.
In our kids school, there was widespread misbehaviour. Teachers acted on it. Parents went to Ministry and school was reprimanded. School and teachers said fine. We'll let your kids be.