Greetings dear teachers,
If you are against strikes-and more so this- you are on my
side of thoughts. If you are pro-Sossion then I have a bone to break with you.
Let us see why.
The continuing government-teachers gymnastics of who can be
greater than who in terms of protecting ones rights and liberty is a common
societal pandemonium. Because people are-many to say- society finds itself in
such wrangles. It ranges from less learned teacher to robot lawyers.
I am also of the view that I should be added more token to
the work I do with Heart to Heart Organization. But when I walk to one of the
schools we support and hear the complains of the cook, I swallow my pride. When
I visit homes, I gulp more sour saliva. Indeed people should live decently
depending on their labour.
Teaching is a profession that will die with time and
everyone with his mind and knowledge will inform another. Syllabus and
education are a creation to control the masses. With the up come of Wi-Fi- a
greatest learning resource- the classrooms will be turned into rehabilitation centers;
or create more rooms for the police force and increased population- before we
send more people to live in Mars- thanks to Elon Musk's passion. But now that
we still have teachers, let us talk about it.
It defeats moral argument that work without pay is uncalled
for. For whom are you working for? Yourself and your society. Not the
government. For who is the government? First should we blame you for being?
Becoming a teacher? Giving birth to a child in school? Or should we start this
argument on your fence- 'I want my money!'
I am to blame you for choosing a wrong profession-or any
other employable position-and secondly undecided with what to do for it.
Serious teachers are in the class teaching- not for gains or pay. I know of
some whom if they were tripled in salaries they would increase their vanity.
Lackingness is a virtue in a way. I am not saying poverty.
As you yawn and discuss of how the government is responding
to Sossion's group- Groups that are created to rumble rather than lead- do you think
even the pay will better of your life? A teacher cannot earn more than a doctor
and so on. This is as a result of the social set-up. This means that if a
teacher's salary is increased- the nation's masses- then the shilling will
water down obviously. Keep in mind that you are not a private entity; the very
society you thinking deny you your gain will be the one to haunt back. Taxes will
be our third child.
Some- the young and old- are using this time to strengthen
rumours, waste time, do other activities among being debauchery. What was the
intention of University Education Students when they aired a conference over
the same? Just to be heard? A youth's horns I guess. Days will move on.
The private schools are also among the poorest paid teachers
who have qualifications but the society has no enough slots for them. At the
end of the term, when private schools will have passed exams well, the
government mouths will be all over to call for inequality in sharing top notch
secondary positions. When laziness and excuses are being tolerated, no mind is
thinking.
And if the government decides to refrain from paying, will
schooling end in Kenya? And if that will be the start of an uprising, to which
order can teacher-led riot take us to? The emperor-government- is not a causative agent to your
problems. Blame your mind.Teaching is a critical role in society
that continues to fail day in as the society becomes dynamic and porous. What
will a status quo mind tell a 21st century brain? Gone are the days in Africa
when a teacher could curse a pupil.
I look forward to teaching in future. African literature
that is. But I pray to do it on volunteering basis.
Thank you.
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| God bless teachers. |
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