Litein Boys Teachers Demand Immediate Transfer from School

Teachers at Litein Boys High School are demanding immediate transfers from the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) after students were sent home following a strike at the school last month.

This comes after parents moved to court over what they termed ‘unexplained levies’ imposed on them following every incident of unrest.

According to the parents, the school directed them to pay Ksh 69 million, with each student having been instructed to pay over Ksh 49,000, allegedly to cover the cost of repairing damages from the latest strike.

Lawyers representing the Parents and Teachers Association (PTA) argued that the pattern is suspicious, noting that every time there is unrest at the school, parents are asked to contribute large sums of money.

“The first strike, parents paid without questioning. The second, they did the same. This is now the third time, and the pattern is suspicious,” said a lawyer, Danstan Omari, representing the PTA.

Litein Boys Teachers Demand Immediate Transfer from School

Speaking to the media on Thursday, October 9, through the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), the teachers said that even if students are recalled on Tuesday, they are not ready to receive them.

KUPPET Kericho Executive Secretary Mary Rotich urged the Teachers Service Commission to recall all the teachers immediately, saying fresh discussions and agreements should be reached before any further action is taken.

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“I call upon the Teacher Service Commission to withdraw all the teachers from Litein High so that we can go back to the drawing board. We need the teachers to be respected. We need the dignity of teachers to be held high,” she said.

”If we are being labeled as though we were waiting for this strike to get some amount from parents, to correct this thinking, I call upon the TSC to recall all the teachers so that we can discuss and agree before anything else goes on.”

Why 38 Teachers Want TSC to Recall Them

Rotich alleged that the way the parents and their lawyer have been speaking shows a lack of respect for the teachers.

At the same time, she revealed that the properties destroyed belonged to 38 teachers and amounted to Ksh4.8 million.

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She further criticized lawyer Danstan Omari for allegedly suggesting that he knew the teachers’ salaries and the kind of property they could own.

“That is not only disrespectful to the teachers but also demeaning — not just to the teachers of Litein High School, but to teachers across this country. It is demeaning to suggest that teachers have nothing to live on,” she said.

“Their houses were broken into by students, their property destroyed, and even their clothes were worn by the students. That was deeply disrespectful. And for the lawyer to side with the parents in demeaning the teachers — to me, as their leader, that is so, so wrong, to say the least.”

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