KUPPET Raises Concerns Over JSS Teacher Assignments in Primary Schools
The Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has raised significant concerns regarding the deployment of junior school instructors in Kenya.
KUPPET further asserts that junior school teachers have since been assigned to the wrong schools, resulting in numerous difficulties.
National Deputy Secretary General Moses Nthurima stressed that these teachers were secondary school educators and questioned the logic of assigning them to places where individuals, such as head teachers, were of lower rank and then referring to them as managers.
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“These are secondary school teachers. How do you take them to a place where people (head teachers) are below them and then call them managers? This report by the task force is misplaced and should be discarded,” stressed Nthurima.
He recommends disregarding the task force’s report, considering it misplaced.
Currently, junior schools are located in primary schools but their instructors have degrees in secondary (senior) education.
A recent report by the Siaya County branch of KUPPET has unveiled a situation where some station heads are compelling junior school teachers to instruct primary schools.
Although the job description for junior school (JS) teachers does not include such a responsibility, the revelation has emerged due to their deployment letters and the number of subjects they must cover in a single day.
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The Siaya branch of KUPPET noticed that the JS teachers’ inferiority complex exacerbated the conflict between ward leaders and them.
The majority of junior school teachers are university graduates, while the majority of primary and junior school principals are P1 certified.
After the recruitment of TSC teachers in January/February and July/August, the majority of junior schools received two teachers to cover 10+ subjects.
Nonetheless, many of the recent recruits are experiencing challenges as they serve in the internship positions, grappling with the difficulties of adapting to the underserved areas to which they have been assigned. They receive a monthly stipend of Sh20,000.
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KUPPET Raises Concerns Over JSS Teacher Assignments in Primary Schools
