Secondary School Students taught by primary teachers protest outside TSC offices
On Tuesday, students at Sigor Day Secondary School in Bomet County took part in a rare protest walk, trudging more than 21 kilometres to protest the government’s failure to post teachers to the institution.
More than 150 students walked to the county headquarters to present their grievances to education officers.
The protesting students walked for more than four hours to the county headquarters, putting their lives in danger in the process.
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Students blamed the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for failing to post teachers to their school despite repeated appeals by parents, guardians and members of the board of management.
“It is pointless for us to be in school and assume all is well when the commission has failed to deploy teachers employed by the government to take charge of the institution,” said a student who spoke on behalf of the others.
The Ministry of Education officially registered the school, which has students in Forms 1 to 4, one and a half years ago.
The school, however, is run by the local primary school, with teachers from the lower institution volunteering to teach the students in their spare time.
For the last 6 years, the school has been staffed by 8 teachers hired by the board of management (BOM), which translates to two teachers for each class.
When county education officers arrived at work before 8 a.m. on Tuesday, they were surprised to see students camping outside their offices.
Mr Charles Nyauma, the TSC county director, addressed the students and promised that he would deal with the matter immediately.
Officials from the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) condemned the TSC officials’ casual attitude toward the matter over the last year.
Mr Paul Kimetto, the executive secretary of the Kuppet county branch, and his Knut counterpart Malel Langat noted that despite the institution having 45 registered Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KSCE) candidates, it was staffed by teachers hired by the board of management.
The incident, they said, demonstrates a clear lack of leadership and dereliction of duty by TSC managers in the county, which the commission’s top brass should address as soon as possible.
In the last three years, TSC has been repeatedly criticized for skewed teacher deployment, nepotism, and favoritism in promotions in Bomet County, with stakeholders vainly demanding a change of guard in the local office.
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Secondary School Students taught by primary teachers protest outside TSC offices
