KUPPET Warns TSC About JSS Teachers’ Intimidation.
The government is being accused by the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) of intimidating interns at junior secondary schools, who have been on strike for the past four weeks since classes resumed. KUPPET weighs in on TSC’s intimidation of intern teachers.
Parents and students should brace themselves for difficult times ahead as the intern teachers, who are opposing the TSC’s illegality of hiring qualified teachers on internships, are not going to give up on their pursuit of verification and recompense by July 31, 2024.
In order to help with their confirmation and salary, these instructors have asked the budget and appropriations committee to provide the instructors Service Commission (TSC) additional funding.
According to Simon Kimani, the KUPPET Chairman of the Nakuru branch, the internship instructors will not return to the classroom until their demands are fulfilled.
The chairman recalled that their needs cannot be met by the Ksh. 17,000 stipend they have been receiving.
The chairman went on to say that unless a return-to-work plan is developed, these teachers would not return to the classroom, regardless of the level of intimidation they get from TSC and Heads of Institutions.
“Even though the government claims there isn’t enough money to meet teacher demands, we have seen the president hire a private jet for Ksh. 200 million,” he said.
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The secretary general brought up the fact that the internship program was found unlawful by the court while discussing this matter.
According to Duncan Macharia, these teachers can’t go back to teaching until the Teachers Service Commission issues confirmation letters endorsing their requests.
KUPPET weighs in on TSC’s intimidation of intern teachers
According to George Owino, the Naivasha Chairperson for Intern instructors, instructors will not return to the classroom unless the government promises to verify and pay them.
Owino went on to say that, given the current difficult economic conditions, the Ksh. 17,000 stipend offered to these professors is insufficient.
“By making sure that all 46,000 intern teachers receive letters of permanent and pensionable terms, we want TSC to come clean about the status of intern teachers,” he said.
KUPPET Warns TSC About JSS Teachers’ Intimidation.
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