Teachers Service Commission’s laudable deployment of SNE-trained teachers to special schools and special units has gained momentum amid unprecedented challenges of overstaffing.
The plan aims at deployment of about 6000 teachers who have been teaching at the regular school system.
The hopes of many of these teachers had started to melt after being left to teach in the schools they were before undergoing SNE training, but hope was rekindled when the TSC/KUSNET deal was struck.
The agreement is bearing fruit. Most head teachers from special schools and units contacted by Education News reported an improved staffing courtesy of the teacher deployment.
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However, as teachers registered their happiness, Education News has learnt that the continued teacher deployment is now being met by the challenge of lack of enough special schools and units to accommodate the huge number being deployed.
In some Western and Nyanza regions for instance, deployment has reignited the infamous delocalization. This is due to the imbalance of distribution of the schools across regions.
Some teachers have been thronging TSC sub-county and county offices requesting to be deployed near their homes, but it has not been possible because SNE staffing is done at the TSC headquarters.
Again, most of the sub-counties, especially in Rift Valley, have very low number of SNE schools.
The ongoing deployment and lack of enough special units is a wakeup call to CSO SNE across the country, for it is time that they went round to open up more special units in schools that qualify to have them.
This will resolve the challenges of lack of a place to be deployed to for the teachers, and at the same time take services closer to the people in the grassroots.
By our reporter
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