The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has been asked to find long lasting solutions to teachers’ strikes so that they can settle and focus on their work.
The principal of Gekong’o Secondary School in Kenyenya Sub-county Lukas Maburi blamed the current teacher career progression guidelines, saying that it is painstakingly slow, leaving teachers frustrated.
“Let the TSC design a definite time frame that qualifies a teacher for automatic promotion from one status to another instead of depending on job grades that lead to categorizations where teachers even retire before seeing promotions,” he said.
He praised Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) Secretary General Omboko Milemba for his wise decision to call off the strike before worse happened in schools.
“A wise leader must read the signs of changing events and set to avert them before going out proportion and that was what Misori did,” he said.
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He regretted that still some parents have not released their children to school and asked chiefs and their assistants to remind parents of this duty.
“It was teachers who went on strike but when they stopped they gave the baton to students who have refused to report back and those who come to school do so without money and expect schools to run,” he said.
The principal called asked all those who were affected by the strike to embrace Christian principles of tolerance, patience and resilience as the only sure way of survival in the ever changing world.
By Enock Okong’o
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