JSS Teachers decry One Term Salary Delay
The Junior Secondary School (JSS) Pioneers are staring at the three months salary that is yet to be paid to them since they were deployed February this year.
The teachers have noted that this move has become a hindrance to them in implementing the Curriculum ( CBC) effectively.
Now the education stakeholders are calling on the Ministry of Education to intervene in saving the JSS Pioneers who are the determinants for proper implementation of the curriculum.
As it stands now, the Junior Secondary School (JSS) is facing a myriad of challenges ranging from inadequate teachers to inadequate resources despite the commission engaging about 30,000 tutors.
Ken Echesa, the Education expert mentioned that this number of teachers employed was insignificant considering the number of schools in the country hosting Junior Secondary School (JSS).
Echesa further noted that the grade 7 learners are supposed to be taught 14 learning areas where the commission has posted one teacher and hardly to teachers in some school posing a greater challenge in delivering effectively.
“In JSS we 14 learning areas and high school teachers are trained to teach two subjects. About 70 Percent of teachers deployed were humanity who basically teach history and religion, Geography and Kiswahili, English Literature, Maths and business,” stated Echesa.
“These tutors are not in position to teach integrated science that is composed of Chemistry, Physics and Biology where soon it will also have Health Education. This tells you that our teachers have gone a full term without introducing students to integrated science,” he state.
JSS Capitation
On April 14, 2023, the Ministry of Education released a statement that it had released Free Secondary Education (FSE) funds for JSS. This is the genesis of the crisis.
The PS for Basic Education, Belio Kipsang demanded that school heads acknowledge receipt of funds by providing the school receipts to him on the Tuition account and operation account.
The heads were also supposed to provide dully signed list of all learners to the County Director of Education via the Sub-County Directors.
The PS stated that those schools that would not have acknowledged receipt of funds by the deadline set will be blacklisted from receiving subsequent funds.
JSS Teachers decry One Term Salary Delay
