By Enock Okong’o
Parents have been asked to solve their problems with headteachers amicably whenever each felt offended by either party.
Speaking at his Kisii town office after learning about the unrest between parents and the Headteacher of Bombaba primary School, Kisii County Education Board Chairman Prof.Henry Onderi called for sanity to prevail in the area.
“One wrong can not be solved by another wrong. Let us learn to listen to one another despite having different opinions,” he advised.
He was referring to parents of the school who held a peaceful demostration demanding the transfer of the headteacher.
The parents stormed the school on Wednesday, a day after the school reopened for second term and threatened to eject the headteacher, Mrs Petis Atuti over mismanagement.
Among the grievances they presented include failure to call an Annual General meeting for parents to know the welfare of the school.
The parents accused the headteacher of having no respect for her staff and the pupils whom she abuses in the open.
They appealed to the Ministry of education to transfer her because she has ignored the school Management Committee that was inaugurated recently but instead appointed her own committee which she uses to embezzle school funds.
“Since she reported to this school three years ago, the standards of education have been dwindling because she does not bother in anyway to improve the school,” one parent lamented.
Speaking to Education News, the Headteacher defended herself saying that parents were being incited by naysayers who did not like how she ran the school.
She informed that last month before the schools closed, unknown people locked her office with two padlocks.
“I informed the area chief who broke in to let me in,” she narrated.
Mrs Atuti said that if push came to shove, she was ready to work anywhere in the country on condition that she be accorded peace of mind.
