The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has called for grades eight and nine to be domiciled in high school while grade seven remains in Primary School.
According to KUPPET Secretary General Akello Misori the one-year implementation of the junior secondary school has been terribly corrupted and plagued by numerous problems and should be immediately discontinued.
Notably the KUPPET SG noted that this move will create seriousness and will not require the employment of many teachers needed in junior secondary schools.
“We want the junior secondary school to be in secondary school in fact we are saying what has been messed up in grade seven can be said as a forgone case let us have grade eight and nine in high school,” said KUPPET Boss.
KUPPET Demands on JSS
While speaking on Saturday, December 16 during the Union’s annual delegates conference in Kasarani, Akello Misori called for a comprehensive study to assess the effectiveness of the teacher implementation of the CBC curriculum at the Juniour Secondary School Level (JSS).
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Additionally, the union wants the government to give JSS teachers permanent contracts as had been promised.
“The government had already committed to us that they will be given permanent adversary jobs after one year that is what we want to happen,” said KUPPET Boss.
JSS Teachers Protest
The plea comes days after a section of teachers on December 14th, 2023, marched along the streets of Kitui town to protest against the Teachers Service Commission’s (TSC) intentions to renew their contracts instead of giving them permanent jobs.
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As such, junior secondary school intern teachers in Kitui county vowed to boycott work in January unless they are employed on permanent and pensionable terms.
The JSS tutors also dismissed the Sh17,000 salary they get as peanuts. They said the amount is only pocket change for their colleagues on permanent employment.
Further, the intern teachers claimed that the TSC was unfairly remunerating them as interns while in other government department interns earn an upward of Ksh30,000 monthly.
