JSS teachers want to be delinked from primary school leadership
Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers now want to be delinked from primary school leadership to eliminate what they claim are unnecessary friction
Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers now want to be delinked from primary school leadership to eliminate what they claim are unnecessary friction.
The teachers have been operating under primary school heads where the junior schools are domiciled. Some station heads have reportedly compelled newly recruited Junior Secondary School teachers to teach primary school classes.
The majority of the JSS teachers are graduates who, under the 8-4-4 curriculum would have been posted to teach secondary schools.
JSS teachers national chairman Omari Omari said it is time for the teachers to operate independently.
Omar was speaking in Nairobi where they also advocated for an independent trade union, arguing that the two teachers’ unions have not proved effective in advocating for their rights.
Most teachers are either members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers or Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers.
Speaking during World Teachers’ Day luncheon organised by Nairobi Senator Ediwn Sifuna, the teachers demanded that the government comes up with clear command system on the management of JSS teachers. Omari said the current system that put them under primary school head teachers is untenable.
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“Allow the JSS teachers to be independent, most schools are currently crime scenes where JSS teachers want to fight head teachers and head teachers want to fight our teachers,” he added.
ECDE, primary and secondary school teachers, JSS teachers as well as Kuppet and Teachers Service Commission officials attended the luncheon.
They called on the Nairobi senator to come up with legislation that delinks them from primary school management.
Omar also called for having teachers’ representatives at the TSC just like the case of other independent commissions. TSC, which handles the human resource function for teachers, has been operating without a slot for teachers in its ranks.
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