Mashinani Watch Organization to join headteachers in agitation for change of job title and compensation.

 

 

“We will rally our support behind the Kenya Primary School Heads Association (KEPSHA)on forcing government to change the title of headmasters to that of principals in line with the comprehensive schools they head. It is true during the development and implementation of the new CBC, the government through Teacher Service Commission didn’t factor in the hard task of accommodating and managing Junior Secondary School(JSS) in the primary schools’ institutions across the country and that has caused immense pressure on teachers.

Head teachers are very right. How can government develop a system then fail to understand the responsibilities coming with that system? Accommodating Junior Secondary Schools in primary schools was supposed to be seen as a new responsibility to head teachers and by mentioning the word “Secondary” in the system, automatically the title of a headmaster ought to have changed to that of a principal. Subsequent governments have for a very long time overlooked the roles teachers play in the society and that has also in one way or the other affected the quality of basic education in the country.

That change of title must be enforced immediately and their pay to commensurate their responsibility of managing Junior Secondary Schools be increased and we will fully back up KEPSHA in the agitation of the same. The head teachers should also continue to demand compensation for the period that they have acted as managers of the Junior Secondary School. When it comes to the question of where that money will come from, then the same government can as well tell us where the money being stolen daily through corruption come from.”


 

 

 

 

 

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