Warning to Parents Harassing Teachers Over Poor Results

Warning to Parents Harassing Teachers Over Poor Results

Warning to Parents Harassing Teachers Over Poor Results

Ezekiel Machogu, the Cabinet Secretary of the education, warned parents not to show up at school unexpectedly to harass teachers about their children’s poor performance in national exams.Machogu warned that anyone discovered abusing school administrators would be subject to the full weight of the law.

He said that since school administrators are only a wheel in the educational machine and cannot be held entirely accountable for student performance on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), it is inappropriate for parents and students to criticize them.

“We wish to remind communities behind these regrettable attacks that learner achievement in examinations is the reflection of the overall input from all stakeholders, including parents, teachers, and candidates themselves,” he said.

The CS announced similar future acts will be treated as acts of crime which will be dealt with by the police.He called upon parents and students who were not satisfied with the 2023 KCPE& KCSE results to report the matter through legal means for the relevant authorities to take action.

Machogu revealed that the Ministry of Education and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) had put in place measures and elaborate mechanisms for evaluating the performance of teachers and field officers.According to Machogu, teachers who test as non-performing shall be dealt with per existing laws and policies.

Since the results were announced last week, there have been increased cases of parents storming schools to frog-march and harass the head teachers.In some situations, the parents closed down the school, barricading the roads and demanding the resignation of the school head.

Poor performance on the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) has also prompted protests from parents. Due to poor academic performance, Tinet Primary School’s parents in Baringo County closed the school last week.The parents made it known that their childrens would not be returning to school. Twenty students received less than 250 marks, while 32 students received between 100 and 190 marks in the results that were announced in November.

Because Mafuta Secondary School consistently fails national exams, parents in Uasin Gishu County became so incensed that they blocked the school’s gates and demanded the principal’s resignation.The first student received a D+, then a D-, and the other students received Es, which infuriated the parents.