Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers in the country are calling on their employer, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), to transfer them to new working stations immediately after confirmation.
This comes after the Commission kickstarted the confirmation of 46,000 JSS interns on permanent and pensionable terms last Friday, October 11, 2024, amid fears of a strained working relationship between them and Head teachers in primary schools where JSS is domiciled.
A number of teachers who spoke to Education News expressed fear of facing disciplinary action from the school heads once confirmed, stating that a recent incident where a JSS teacher was involved in a heated argument with the Head teacher of a JSS school in Nyanza was a replica of what was happening in many schools in the country.
“TSC should consider transferring some of us to different working stations once we are confirmed on permanent and pensionable terms from the current stations in order to dilute the already sour relationship with heads of institutions. Some of us fear that the bosses will now have express leeway to institute disciplinary mechanism over us unlike when we were on internship,” said one of the JSS teachers in one of the recruitment centres.
He added that the teachers have been undergoing numerous challenges during the internship period key amongst them being understaffing and continued rivalry between them and Head teachers.
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Challenges related to teacher deployment, including large student populations exceeding the capacity of available teachers, inadequate resources, and discomfort teaching unfamiliar subjects due to lack of training have also been facing the teachers.
According to the TSC roadmap to teachers’ confirmation, the teachers are being called today October 15, 2024 by TSC Sub-County Directors in various recruitment centres to fill TSC Employment forms.
The Letters of Offer for Employment to all the successful candidates and signed by TSC SCDs will be sent to respective schools tomorrow October 16, 2024.
By Correspondent
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