Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:54:46 -0800 [10:54:46 AM CST]
From: Duncan Nyabilo
Subject: RE: Teacher’s Strike is justified!! Misplaced thoughts!
It is indeed very sad to see the direction this rotten country is going. It appears that most so called educated people have sunk so low in their selfishness that they can knowingly rape their own mothers to satisfy their lust for wealth.
Looked at with a very sane mind, this teachers strike is an glaring example of how Kenyans do not look at the entire economy .We may soon be like Uganda under Idi Amin, or Zimbabwe where people are more concerned with the amount of money they have and not the purchasing power.
In addition, about sixty percent of Kenya is not having a regular income, they also face the same cost of living that these exam cheaters are crying about.What is the use of having alot of food when your students, next door neighbor is not even able to have one meal aday. This is what is promoting thuggery and uncontrolled corruption.
Teachers have better things to ask for thjat this free money. The classrooms are missing so many things, the respect for the noble profession is gone, the books are not there, information technology, science labs, teacher student ratio and so on just to mention a few.
Teachers just as most working class are the reasom why the second liberation failed. It is time for teachers and all working Kenyans to grow up and stop acting up like little kids.It is sad to see some teachers even inciting primary school students to demonstrate on their behalf. Nowonder we have too much property destructio and loss of lives in schools in the name of strikes. This in my view is the height pof moral decay, lack of professionalism and will lead us doen the path of destruction very fast.
Odbilo.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:16:18 -0800
From: gaseruwa@ . . .
Subject: Re: Teacher’s Strike is justified!! Misplaced thoughts!
Good! That’s my take also,
we really need to bring sanity to some of these issues,
where gross injustice is being done in the name of defending peoples (teachers) rights.
To add on yours, the way things are the taxpayers, parents & students have rights too,
which are being breached with impunity.
Where are the human and children rights activities to press for this gross injustice?
Rgds.
From: SYLVESTER WANASWA
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:57:11 AM
Subject: Re: Teacher’s Strike is justified!! Misplaced thoughts!
Hi Liz,
As much as you stress on the issue of teachers to be paid ”de-stress/hardship allowance” you need to look at the real side of the coin. One,separate the teachers and the KNUT union;teachers are paid by patriotic Kenyan tax-payers and parents for the service they deliver in the educational sector,now that they are on strike against their own service contract;who should pay the other one if the game was to be made fair? Teachers should payback tax-payers and parents for breaching their contract with them! If not the government should assist the tax-payers to retain their money by not paying teachers for what they have not earned. Life can’t be that simple; You just sit in the name of striking and you earn what has been hard-earned by others.Two,The KNUT Union is an employee of teachers,when they failed in their negotiations,teachers were supposed to sack them for none service delivery but not come up to do what is not in their mandate by going on strike at the tax-payers expense! The KNUT negotiated,the Gok gave its side of version by accepting the terms but then over a certain period of time; source of contention with KNUT! The UNION wanted it to be implemented from Jan.2009.Sincerely speaking, where did the UNION expect Prof.Ongeri to have gotten the money instantly to pay the 250,000 teachers instantly.what I mean is that the Gok has a budgetting process that takes that long up to somewhere 31st June and starts somewhere July(correct my dates pls) that allows for the incorporation of any Budgetary changes but when the UNION wakes up and surprises tax-payers with instant Pay increase,what do they expect Ongeri to do in his own capacity as an individual bearing in mind that the GoK process can’t be that Instant? Third, what are some of the reasons that the teachers are asking for a salary increase? “Its because they want to be at same level with other Civil servants in salary” This is a flimsy excuse that the teachers Union ,being made up of Teachers who are believed to have gone to school, beats some of the Human resource reasons for salary increase request! when asking for salary increase,one is supporsed to either quote evidence of the fact that he/she has added value to the organization or the workload has increased more than it was at the time of recruitment etc but in the view of this,the teachers have refused to sign the performance contract but still want their delivery efforts recognised and renumerated! Liz,think about it and advise me accordingly! If they can’t be in the teaching proffesion,they can be relieved of their duties and given a chance by dismissal to go where they can deliver or belong.
Sylvester
From: elizabeth
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 4:39:04 PM
Subject: FW: Teacher’s Strike is justified!!
In fact, they need de-stress / hardship allowance!