The Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called on parents and school principals across Kenya to withdraw students from school as the teachers’ strike intensifies.
KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori urged principals who may have been misled by erroneous notions, to avoid risking the safety of schools and students.
Further, Misori announced that teachers have vowed to stay home for the next week, and possibly longer.
“You cannot keep students in schools without teachers. Parents who continue to send their children to school during this period are doing so at their own risk. KUPPET will not be held responsible,
“For the next one week, even beyond, teachers have vowed to stay at home. We are now appealing to the principals who have been persuaded by wrong notions to let the schools not to be burnt.” he warned.
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At the same time, Misori criticized the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) for its divisive tactics adding that the service has continuously undermined the union’s efforts to improve the welfare of teachers.
He called on parents and principals to exercise due diligence before participating in what he noted as the TSC’s “mischievous arrangement” of issuing threats to teachers.
“We therefore ask parents and principals to do due diligence not to engage in this mischievous arrangement of TSC by issuing threats to teachers.
“We have followed all the legal means of a union to go on strike, but it now appears that the wisdom of this county to create the ministry of labor has been made irrelevant by employers. One such employer is the Teachers Service Commission (TSC).”
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According to Misori, the ongoing strike has evolved into a bigger struggle for teachers’ rights, especially to ensure their career progression
“That is why I am telling the whole country that this whole industrial action has now metamorphosed to a struggle. Because without the review of career progression,
“Even when teachers have loans to further their education, the current education system require teachers with aptitude in research. Teachers with master’s and PhD are going to be of service to this country,
“When a teacher moves from one grade to another, his status is elevated. So, the employer has refused to elevate the teacher,” he added.
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