Junior Secondary School Teachers have called out the Teachers Service Commission for organizing retooling during the festive December Holidays. The displeased teachers cite the inconvenience the commission will pose for them to attend the week long training.
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"The Teachers Service Commission has planned the retooling of teachers handling grade 7 and 8 (Junior School) in Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) and Competency Based Assessment (CBA) with the effect from 20th November to 5th December, 2024..." read part of the circular dated 28th October, 2024.
While the teachers appreciate the need of organizing such workshops, they have faulted their employer for 'inconvenient timing.' The face to face training will take place between 2nd and 5th December in select venues at the Subcounty level. Consequently, teachers who had traveled to their homes for December Holidays will be forced to travel back to their stations and back again to their homes after the training is over which force them to fork out huge sums in a space of less than a week.
The hard hit teachers are those deployed in hard to staff areas such North Eastern regions who trace their homes miles and miles far away.
Here are some of the their takes...
"What will happen to Diaspora teachers? Imagine spending 10k on the road to attend the seminar..."
"Someone spends 4k to reach the venue then the fare reimbursement is done in December next year!"
"This thing (retooling) should have been pushed to January. The stipend has already depleted and yet the exercise has no even kicked off!"
Indeed that's unwise from TSC. How can they call retooling when you're working in Mandera and your home is Busia? "
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Most teachers travelled to the villages and different destinations to link up with their families.