TSC Transfers 6 Teachers From School After Assault
TSC Transfers 6 Teachers From School After Assault
Six teachers from Uasin Gishu County’s St. Martin Mafuta Secondary School have been transferred by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).
This comes after furious parents, who blamed the teachers for the low performance on last year’s national examinations, invaded the school last week and violently removed the school principal.
Given that the action was taken just a few days after TSC moved 17 teachers from St. Gabriel Isonga Secondary School in Kakamega County due to teacher attacks by parents, it suggests that other schools involved in similar incidents may also be impacted.
Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu has since condemned the cases even as he insisted that any action taken should not affect the basic right of education for learners in affected schools.
The leading student in Mafuta had a D+, followed by a D -, while the rest of the candidates scored an E.
“Unalipa pesa 4 years mtoto akuje na D, how do you feel even if it is yourself?” Parents said at the time.
David Wafula, the principal and the director of studies were assaulted and chased away by residents who were protesting what they termed as poor results recorded by the school in last year’s KCSE exams.
Speaking in Nairobi on Friday, CS Machogu condemned the cases insisting that the issue of results is not the responsibility of teachers alone but the community at large.
He tasked the education officials to fast track investigations and issue him a report on the incidents.
“Whatever your position in society, if you misbehave to that extent this country has structures and you should be taken to court,” he said.
In the meantime, the CS ordered that the actions taken should not affect the fundamental right to education of other learners in the affected schools.
“While the invasion of schools and attack on teachers is unfortunate and we cannot allow it to continue, we have to adopt carefully consultative means of ensuring that we do not deprive children of their right to education,” Machogu noted.
His remarks were supported by Khwisero Member of Parliament Christopher Aseka, who in another event in Kakamega County, said that it will be difficult for parents of the school to afford the salaries of the teachers employed by the school board of management (BOM).
“Mimi kama mjumbe nasihi TSC evaluate your stance, sasa wazazi na watoto waanze kuandika walimu wa BOM inamaanisha pesa ya fees itaedna juu lakini. Isongo walimu wengine hata kama wale wameenda tafutia,” Aseka said.
Due to a shortage of instructors, schools are currently facing greater challenges. TSC appears to be unrelenting in its attempts to protect teachers’ safety within schools.
