The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) typically promotes administrators who have successfully managed small schools to bigger ones after conducting interviews for different administrative levels of learning.
The promoted administrators must have exhibited merit and prudent management of human and financial resources.
Administrators in small schools find it challenging to manage schools where parents fail to honour payment for school levies.
This completely paralyzes any development as principals struggle to remain afloat following left-right expenses ranging from salaries for school workers to meal provision, not forgetting the many suppliers for school items.
Conversely, we have administrators who run big schools, grappling with bulging classes. These teachers must be very sensitive to insignificant issues because a small matter could lead to a strike.
The Board of Management usually engages many teachers to cater to the large learner population; however, individualis20ed remedial teaching and fully curbing cases of indiscipline become increasingly difficult.
The large learner population can make administrators and teachers feel anxious and, at times, unsafe after they are outnumbered by learners by a large margin.
Classroom teachers who tirelessly burn midnight oil marking learners’ assignments and examination scripts can become exhausted, which could compromise their efficiency.
In many cases, when learners perform exemplary well, parents move quickly to transfer their children to these schools spontaneously. This upgrades the matrix by registering an increase in enrollment, easy payment of fees and increased capitation by the government.
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This eases the funding for education and gives the principals a better and bigger bargain for what they aspire to have, including payment for remedial lessons and any other levies.
Parents are forced to cooperate with the teachers without challenging or questioning anything and stretch to any limit to maintain good performance.
Succinctly, hard work and good performance ease the burden on the principals and gradually make their administration easier. Parents are forced to defend the principals’ proposals jealously.
Principals should work towards maintaining excellent performance to make their work completely easier.
By Hillary Muhalya
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