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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 2, 2015 16:53:43 GMT 3
Same old song!
He was hiding in foreign lands like a refugee, as the controversy escalated in the wake of the court decision to award teachers a hefty raise.
That's the finance errand boy Rotich.
Meanwhile at home, the state in the persons of Kamau Thugge, Joseph Kaimenyi and an allotment og TSC accountants, had decided to preempt the court's decision, by rushing through the salary pay-slip of teachers for the month August. This was bureaucratic stopgap measure, but nevertheless a cynical, transparent and childish ploy.
But its chief stupidity lay in the fact that it was a move that destroys goodwill, and this is a trenchant, long-running stalemate. One needs goodwill.
So, 'There is no money. I will double taxes'! The treasury infants throw a tantrum, crying wolf, trying a weak hand at intimidation.
Problem is they did not cut a steady hand when other sectors of the economy, chiefly the politicians, endeared themselves to fortune salaries and perks.
Which macro, or micro economic model, measuring economic contribution and productivity, labour value, explicates that a Kenya Mpig or MCA is worth more than a school principal, in unit expended labour?
Austerity requires a cross- party, socially broad-based consensus, so that the inevitable burden is fairly apportioned. That means cushions for the economically weakest, and nullified subsidies for the stronger shoulders. but when there is obvious imbalance, and once the political sector runs away with both baby and bathtub ---by awarding themselves stupendous kitties, making ours the most lucrative political officers worldwide, it becomes impossible and indeed unsustainable, for the same group to reign in other sectors seeking equal grandiose perks. Be they doctors, nurses, or teachers.
The taxpayer base of Kenya is a well-known hard up well, yet the clowns at the top have set in motion an open run on Wanjiku's purse. Yes, the golden trio at finance. --Rotich, Thugge and Njoroge (CBK) need conjure up a non-statistical-rebase GDP doubling project! Or behold! It will be a money doubling to pay doubled salaries, which without value backup in the real economy, is a super inflationary factor.
Let's watch us build castles in the air.
Give me Hjalmar Schacht anyday. Harvard and Yale give way! (Like other teams in Gor Biro)!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 6, 2015 17:23:54 GMT 3
Subject: Garbage rules. In those days I still worked for the TSC. We, walimu, talked of the famous CBA which Mr. Adongo, the legendary KNUT SecGen, had meticulously worked upon and which the dying Moi regime could not avoid. With the massive advent of graduates into the TSC payroll, the glaring historical descrepancy in remuneration which saw the teaching profession as a junkyard bay for those going nowhere careerwise, would be a ceiling broken. Compare for instance the starting salary, in 1997, of an accountant and a KU graduate! In the old days, you only went to KU if you didn't make it to UON. UON had the pick, KU the refuse. Them days those were. And an general BA or Bsc graduate from UON, started the same scale as a professional KU trained teacher, original (BEd) graduate! Absolute madness. Them income disparities. This institutionalised belittling of the teaching profession, this monstrous financial discrimination of an elite core, this insane imbalance, was the grief pool which Adongo tapped and birthed the steamroll toward that famous CBA. BUT politicians of ours are averse to genuine grievances. For the wilting KANU stump, the CBA was merely a gimmick. Gimmicks have a shelf life. Kenyan politicians stayed the same. Raila Tinga and Don Kibaki came, and they too in their MOU applied the KANU recept to the teachers problem. The wound festered on. Kazungu Kambi came to labour, appointed by William Ruto, and in one of the most ignorant performances ever, declared the Jubilee government having been a non party to the CBA, and further, another government too having ignored the respective agreement, his tenure would bear no responsibility for it. Actually, the moron Kambi is not aware that agreements are institutional, which means the current government repays loans and interests imposed at Lancaster during the Independence negotiations. Historicity of government is beyond Kambi, not to mention the tactical stupidity of Ruto in putting an ignoramus in charge of labour, a department whose leading protagonist is the organised diploma and graduate core, KNUT and KUPPET. This ain't your juakali handout crowd, hand to mouth rubble, nor cane peasants ready to suplicate before a predatory sugarmill run by leeches. Now the TSC wants to sack 200 thousand teachers who want supreme court ruling implemented. That is the TSC n Kaimenyi being Kazungu Kambi allover again! Third term is exam national time. But when goats are in charge of anything what does one expect? Goat droppings everywhere. Watch things come to ahead. There is money to build a stupid wall along the Somali border? Hire a bus for 1M per day at the airport? Waste around paying Mpigs? But none to pay teachers, and education is the future? O goats! Goats! The regime of goats! What theory of productivity, to calibrate the value of labour in Kenya, and have a national CBA, sustainable because it is fair to all?Soi life is never fair? Soon idling youth around the country will start burning schools out of boredom/excitement. Why doyou think military barracks never let soldiers idle too much? They begin to question stuff, and get ideas. Ideas? Ideas like what is not fair!Rebellionsd and murderous rage come from bottled feelings of unfair treatment. But do goats know? Maybe they do, but they jst don't care. Same old song! He was hiding in foreign lands like a refugee, as the controversy escalated in the wake of the court decision to award teachers a hefty raise. That's the finance errand boy Rotich. Meanwhile at home, the state in the persons of Kamau Thugge, Joseph Kaimenyi and an allotment og TSC accountants, had decided to preempt the court's decision, by rushing through the salary pay-slip of teachers for the month August. This was bureaucratic stopgap measure, but nevertheless a cynical, transparent and childish ploy. But its chief stupidity lay in the fact that it was a move that destroys goodwill, and this is a trenchant, long-running stalemate. One needs goodwill. So, 'There is no money. I will double taxes'! The treasury infants throw a tantrum, crying wolf, trying a weak hand at intimidation. Problem is they did not cut a steady hand when other sectors of the economy, chiefly the politicians, endeared themselves to fortune salaries and perks. Which macro, or micro economic model, measuring economic contribution and productivity, labour value, explicates that a Kenya Mpig or MCA is worth more than a school principal, in unit expended labour? Austerity requires a cross- party, socially broad-based consensus, so that the inevitable burden is fairly apportioned. That means cushions for the economically weakest, and nullified subsidies for the stronger shoulders. but when there is obvious imbalance, and once the political sector runs away with both baby and bathtub ---by awarding themselves stupendous kitties, making ours the most lucrative political officers worldwide, it becomes impossible and indeed unsustainable, for the same group to reign in other sectors seeking equal grandiose perks. Be they doctors, nurses, or teachers. The taxpayer base of Kenya is a well-known hard up well, yet the clowns at the top have set in motion an open run on Wanjiku's purse. Yes, the golden trio at finance. --Rotich, Thugge and Njoroge (CBK) need conjure up a non-statistical-rebase GDP doubling project! Or behold! It will be a money doubling to pay doubled salaries, which without value backup in the real economy, is a super inflationary factor. Let's watch us build castles in the air. Give me Hjalmar Schacht anyday. Harvard and Yale give way! (Like other teams in Gor Biro)!
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Post by jakaswanga on Sept 6, 2015 17:32:43 GMT 3
Salary raise will distort figures, says Rotich and co.
Additional taxes, rising borrowing, expenditure cuts will be the effect of implementation.
So the by teachers celebrated court ruling is going nowhere, reasons Jubilee. With that govt contempt of court, LYDIA Nzomo, tsc chair, threatens to sack teachers instead of standing with them.
We have a situation, Sossion, Misori.
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Post by kamalet on Sept 7, 2015 13:05:34 GMT 3
Salary raise will distort figures, says Rotich and co. Additional taxes, rising borrowing, expenditure cuts will be the effect of implementation. So the by teachers celebrated court ruling is going nowhere, reasons Jubilee. With that govt contempt of court, LYDIA Nzomo, tsc chair, threatens to sack teachers instead of standing with them. We have a situation, Sossion, Misori. We need to stop romancing this new constitution and the repeated mantra of respecting court rulings! Teachers just like anyone else in public service are entitled to proper emoluments, but I am hardly convinced that they deserve the payrise they were awarded. Courts of law earn their respect not because of the constitutional power they have, but by the decisions they render. Just like in the military where it said that soldiers should ignore illegal orders, I see no reason not to apply the same to "our courts". The moment courts take up the role of awarding salaries, then a dangerous (and very dangerous precedent gets set for they cannot have that competence on such matters as theirs is really the law only!!!. The court can award what it wants but as long as the person paying cannot afford it, that court order means zilch! I can imagine the only reason Uhuruto will not intervene is to show Kenyans the folly of the constitution in creating organs that are supposedly independent but not necessarily responsible! TSC will not pay unless money is voted by parliament to make the payments. Parliament is currently out until next month so whatever courts want to do about this is stuck up in another 'independent' organ with the power of money! My view is that the court of appeal should reverse that award and order TSC and the Unions to discuss the modality of making the payments taking into account the economy and fiscal legal requirements. Anything short of this will only cause chaos in the entire public service with everyone clamouring for similar pay rises.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 18, 2015 22:52:14 GMT 3
UuhRuto have effectively called the teachers' bluff. By ordering all schools closed and new term dates announced, the government has in all intends and purposes removed teachers from the payroll, there will be no September salary even if we were to go back to Mukibis on Monday.
Although a very risky move in itself, fraught with a lot of political ramifications, teachers' perennial striking problem has to be brought to an end one way or the other. The thought that SRC should and will be the only body to regulate pay increment can only be realized if government stood firm against teachers and any other public officer now and in future. The argument has been made that the courts ordered government to pay, missing in this argument however is the fact that government has gone back to the court and told the court that we do not have such money and that you (the court) are not the right organ to award anyone a salary increment. This case is still ongoing.
Teachers will need to come to the realization that the new constitution actually annulled any agreement they had with the previous governments. The birth of SRC brought to an end any pending business for teachers. If teachers want to operate outside SRC, their only solution is to call for disbandment of TSC, cease being public servants and go for localization of education where they will be hired by local authorities on terms agreeable to both of them as the case is in most western countries.
So yes, a big problem for UhuRuto, but my advise is, they should not flinch, even in the face of calls for impeachment and Uhuru Park rallies. They should stand firm and solve the teacher and by extension public servants problems once and for all, regardless of the political price.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 19, 2015 3:44:28 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu:
You seem to have good information on such matters. May I ask: has the government also directed private schools to close, or is all that just rumour? If the former, what do private schools have to do with a pay dispute between the government and its employees?
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 19, 2015 7:54:08 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu: You seem to have good information on such matters. May I ask: has the government also directed private schools to close, or is all that just rumour? If the former, what do private schools have to do with a pay dispute between the government and its employees? Otish: Government ordered closure of private schools that are on 8-4-4 curriculum for fairness for all learners. The calendar for these schools and public is the same.
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 10:32:55 GMT 3
Mwalimumkuu,interesting 411 on the teachers strike saga. Will the GK win this one? It's hard to say but now that I'm prematurely back to a full house even after having paid fees in full I'm eager to see who will blink first.
Here's Musyoka wa Kyendo's take on what he refers to as teachers blackmail against us. Sossion may have bit more than he can chew:
"TSC, parents must reject blackmail by teachers
Date: September 19, 2015
The teaching profession has become synonymous with strikes and blackmail. It is the only profession where court orders are followed only when they favour them.
Two years ago, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) secretary general Wilson Sossion and chairman Mudzo Nzili were fined Sh500,000 each for defying a directive to end the teachers’ strike.
Yet the union bosses have once again pulled teachers out of class demanding that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) implements a 50-60 per cent pay rise ordered by the Employment and Labour Relations Court in July. Now, courts do not have the mandate to increase pay for civil servants. Secondly, it has emerged that teachers have been lying to us.
According to the government, there are no outstanding dues owed to teachers. The 300 per cent offered by retired President Daniel arap Moi was fully settled in 2007, and teachers’ salaries were harmonised with those of other civil servants in 2009 and only allowances were missing and those have been factored in the current budget.
Teachers have not challenged those facts, which informed President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rejection of their demands last week. Teachers’ unions have resorted to arm twisting tactics. They blackmail parents and the government into silence. By absconding duty, teachers know the government will be helpless.
And parents strengthen the teachers’ resolve by suffering what I shall call “children phobia.” A good proportion of parents want the children out of their way and they want to place them in the hands of someone else. That is why some children find their way to school even before they learn how to talk.
For this reason, many are ready to pay huge sums of money to keep the children in school even during school holidays. Yes, parents do not want to be at home with their children. In fact, some parents are prepared to defy the government ban on holiday tuition just to keep their children away from them.
Given this irresponsible attitude, teachers in the past chose to make hay while the sun shone. They charged an arm and a leg to offer tuition and parents could not raise a finger because they were under pressure from teachers.
Whenever the aggrieved parents complained of the extortion cartel, they were advised to co-operate or else their children would suffer. That is why Education Cabinet Secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi, who has stood firm against this daylight robbery by teachers, has become their number one enemy.
From the foregoing, we can see why teachers’ unions cannot wait for the ruling on the appeal against their court determined pay increase. They fear that the Court of Appeal will reject the pay increase. Consequently, they have to employ all the tricks in the book to get their way.
The best weapon is to go on strike just when Form Four and Class Eight candidates are about to sit examinations. The term is not as critical as the parents think, teachers argue. In moments of sanity, they will tell you that this term’s class work forms just 15-20 per cent of the national examination.
What was taught in the lower classes comprises the rest. Therefore, all candidates are ready for the national examinations. So encourage your children to go to school and revise as groups. They have two months to revise without teachers and pass the exams because they have prepared for the examination since they entered Class Four.
For the Form Four candidates, they have been preparing for the exams the first day they joined high school. As for teachers, stop this blackmail and go back to class. Your demands are unrealistic.
Food for thought: In 1998, Banking Insurance and Finance Union of Kenya (Bifu) workers went on an unprotected strike.
Despite pleas by the employers and advise from well-meaning Kenyans, the union remained firm – no going to work until Simeon Nyachae, the then Finance minister withdrew an order requiring that banking staff be taxed on their benefits.
Finally, the employers got tired and sacked all 3,000 members of the union and advertised for the jobs. There were 20,000 applications for the 3,000 jobs. That marked the end of militancy in the union. Be warned!"
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 10:35:13 GMT 3
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 19, 2015 16:18:15 GMT 3
Government ordered closure of private schools that are on 8-4-4 curriculum for fairness for all learners. The calendar for these schools and public is the same. That's an interesting way to look at it. From what I understand the private schools have no quarrel with anybody. But their students* are also being interfered with. How is that fair to them? What do the lawyers there think of that? *I refer to call them that because all are studying, but not all are learning.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 19, 2015 17:48:01 GMT 3
B6K Musyoka wa Kyendo makes sense on a number of issues. 1. Teachers' dues owed by government as a result of KANU regime's eagerness to win elections at all costs, have been settled in full. 2. Teachers can no longer negotiate for pay increment outside the SRC framework in general and public service in particular 3. Unprotected strike, as this one has been declared, is illegal despite what you have heard about constitution 2010 provisions on picketing, strikes and all. 4. The dispute is still in court, therefore no basis for strike in the first place
In my own view jubilee have a God-given opportunity to settle this matter once and for all. Of course there will be casualties who could easily include Kenyatta himself, but it has to be done. We should never have another president in future dealing with such blackmail year in year out. Down the road we will need to make even more harder decisions on management of education in the country.
Meanwhile, opposition is making teachers case even worse. You would expect KNUT to distance itself from CORD's sideshows. The moment you introduce impeachment of Uhuru, especially when you have no any basis to do so, as is the case now, you split even the teachers down the middle. It becomes political (read ethnic). The ethnic patriots will be alerted and will respond accordingly.
We are at the tipping point now, you take even one eye off the target for one second, you are down. I am watching this one with a lot of interest.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 19, 2015 18:00:09 GMT 3
Government ordered closure of private schools that are on 8-4-4 curriculum for fairness for all learners. The calendar for these schools and public is the same. That's an interesting way to look at it. From what I understand the private schools have no quarrel with anybody. But their students* are also being interfered with. How is that fair to them? What do the lawyers there think of that? *I refer to call them that because all are studying, but not all are learning. Not quite Otish, government is telling these schools that they have no reason to keep these learners in school yet the calendar has since changed. Of course I doubt that private schools that decide to keep students on will be reprimanded by government.
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 19, 2015 18:12:48 GMT 3
Not quite Otish, government is telling these schools that they have no reason to keep these learners in school yet the calendar has since changed. Of course I doubt that private schools that decide to keep students on will be reprimanded by government. I thought it was about "fairness". Anyway, let's consider the new one. Telling them they have "no reason" is not quite the same as forcing them to close. And it is not even clear why they should be "told" anything. I don't see what exactly the calendars of private schools necessarily have to do with thaose of public schools, although some of the former might, for convenience, go along with the latter. For example, I believe there are some private international schools that go with British, American, etc. school calendars. Why should they have "no reason"?
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 19:04:09 GMT 3
B6K Musyoka wa Kyendo makes sense on a number of issues. 1. Teachers' dues owed by government as a result of KANU regime's eagerness to win elections at all costs, have been settled in full. 2. Teachers can no longer negotiate for pay increment outside the SRC framework in general and public service in particular 3. Unprotected strike, as this one has been declared, is illegal despite what you have heard about constitution 2010 provisions on picketing, strikes and all. 4. The dispute is still in court, therefore no basis for strike in the first place In my own view jubilee have a God-given opportunity to settle this matter once and for all. Of course there will be casualties who could easily include Kenyatta himself, but it has to be done. We should never have another president in future dealing with such blackmail year in year out. Down the road we will need to make even more harder decisions on management of education in the country. Meanwhile, opposition is making teachers case even worse. You would expect KNUT to distance itself from CORD's sideshows. The moment you introduce impeachment of Uhuru, especially when you have no any basis to do so, as is the case now, you split even the teachers down the middle. It becomes political (read ethnic). The ethnic patriots will be alerted and will respond accordingly. We are at the tipping point now, you take even one eye off the target for one second, you are down. I am watching this one with a lot of interest. ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~ Mwalimumkuu, in short: 1) Teachers KANU era dues = non-issue 2) Payrise outside of SRC = unconstitutional 3) Unprotected strike = illegal 4) Striking while matters in court = irregular 4.5) Enjoining teachers issues into CORD politics = siasa mbaya, maisha mbaya All the above = D-Day! Wololo yaye!
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 19:11:23 GMT 3
Not quite Otish, government is telling these schools that they have no reason to keep these learners in school yet the calendar has since changed. Of course I doubt that private schools that decide to keep students on will be reprimanded by government. I thought it was about "fairness". Anyway, let's consider the new one. Telling them they have "no reason" is not quite the same as forcing them to close. And it is not even clear why they should be "told" anything. I don't see what exactly the calendars of private schools necessarily have to do with thaose of public schools, although some of the former might, for convenience, go along with the latter. For example, I believe there are some private international schools that go with British, American, etc. school calendars. Why should they have "no reason"? Otishotish, methinks you miss the point. The circular closing schools according to my understanding only affects those on the 8-4-4 system. Those with foreign curriculum are free to continue as they wish. Wapi Omwenga ama Sadik, jameni?
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 19, 2015 19:24:15 GMT 3
Not quite Otish, government is telling these schools that they have no reason to keep these learners in school yet the calendar has since changed. Of course I doubt that private schools that decide to keep students on will be reprimanded by government. I thought it was about "fairness". Anyway, let's consider the new one. Telling them they have "no reason" is not quite the same as forcing them to close. And it is not even clear why they should be "told" anything. I don't see what exactly the calendars of private schools necessarily have to do with thaose of public schools, although some of the former might, for convenience, go along with the latter. For example, I believe there are some private international schools that go with British, American, etc. school calendars. Why should they have "no reason"? The government regulates 8-4-4 calendar for both private and public, even though they don't pay teachers in private schools. That's how 'fairness' and 'no reason to' come in.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 19, 2015 19:27:20 GMT 3
I thought it was about "fairness". Anyway, let's consider the new one. Telling them they have "no reason" is not quite the same as forcing them to close. And it is not even clear why they should be "told" anything. I don't see what exactly the calendars of private schools necessarily have to do with thaose of public schools, although some of the former might, for convenience, go along with the latter. For example, I believe there are some private international schools that go with British, American, etc. school calendars. Why should they have "no reason"? Otishotish, methinks you miss the point. The circular closing schools according to my understanding only affects those on the 8-4-4 system. Those with foreign curriculum are free to continue as they wish. Wapi Omwenga ama Sadik, jameni? Absolutely B6K, we have some private schools on multiple curricular. Those won't be closing per se, but their 8-4-4 students, according to government need not be in school.
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 19:29:00 GMT 3
I thought it was about "fairness". Anyway, let's consider the new one. Telling them they have "no reason" is not quite the same as forcing them to close. And it is not even clear why they should be "told" anything. I don't see what exactly the calendars of private schools necessarily have to do with thaose of public schools, although some of the former might, for convenience, go along with the latter. For example, I believe there are some private international schools that go with British, American, etc. school calendars. Why should they have "no reason"? The government regulates 8-4-4 calendar for both private and public, even though they don't pay teachers in private schools. That's how 'fairness' and 'no reason to' come in. Mwalimumkuu, let's be clear. Who drafts 8-4-4 exams if not Ministry of Education, aka GK? Of course they can have a say on when said exams are given...
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Post by b6k on Sept 19, 2015 19:29:52 GMT 3
Otishotish, methinks you miss the point. The circular closing schools according to my understanding only affects those on the 8-4-4 system. Those with foreign curriculum are free to continue as they wish. Wapi Omwenga ama Sadik, jameni? Absolutely B6K, we have some private schools on multiple curricular. Those won't be closing per se, but their 8-4-4 students, according to government need not be in school. That's the way it is, mate...
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 19, 2015 20:36:39 GMT 3
Otishotish, methinks you miss the point. The circular closing schools according to my understanding only affects those on the 8-4-4 system. Those with foreign curriculum are free to continue as they wish. Wapi Omwenga ama Sadik, jameni? I actually don't know much about these things. I am just trying to get some information and a clear understanding, so it is possible that I may miss some things while I learn. My first question was I was told that for fairness, all schools (private and public) were to be closed. When I asked how that would be fair to private school types, I was told that it was actually about the calendar. When I asked about different calendars, I have been told it's actually about 8-4-4. Who knows what will come next. I hope some government-spokesman type will clearly say: these are the schools that have been closed, and for this and that reasons.
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Post by OtishOtish on Sept 19, 2015 20:42:27 GMT 3
]Mwalimumkuu, let's be clear. Who drafts 8-4-4 exams if not Ministry of Education, aka GK? Of course they can have a say on when said exams are given... That seems quite reasonable. So what happens when a private school states that it will go along with the dates for "when said exams are given" but it wishes to continue teaching while the government and its employees slug it out? www.kenyans.co.ke/news/private-schools-react-govt-order-close-all-schools
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Post by b6k on Sept 20, 2015 1:41:51 GMT 3
Otishotish, methinks you miss the point. The circular closing schools according to my understanding only affects those on the 8-4-4 system. Those with foreign curriculum are free to continue as they wish. Wapi Omwenga ama Sadik, jameni? I actually don't know much about these things. I am just trying to get some information and a clear understanding, so it is possible that I may miss some things while I learn. My first question was I was told that for fairness, all schools (private and public) were to be closed. When I asked how that would be fair to private school types, I was told that it was actually about the calendar. When I asked about different calendars, I have been told it's actually about 8-4-4. Who knows what will come next. I hope some government-spokesman type will clearly say: these are the schools that have been closed, and for this and that reasons. Pray tell, which calendars were you asking about since to me your feigned confusion seems....feigned.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 20, 2015 3:03:58 GMT 3
I actually don't know much about these things. I am just trying to get some information and a clear understanding, so it is possible that I may miss some things while I learn. My first question was I was told that for fairness, all schools (private and public) were to be closed. When I asked how that would be fair to private school types, I was told that it was actually about the calendar. When I asked about different calendars, I have been told it's actually about 8-4-4. Who knows what will come next. I hope some government-spokesman type will clearly say: these are the schools that have been closed, and for this and that reasons. Pray tell, which calendars were you asking about since to me your feigned confusion seems....feigned. B6K Otish is just taking us in circles.
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 20, 2015 15:34:52 GMT 3
Here is another of those misguided professors of opposition. You can easily tell who called the tune By GODWIN MURUNGA More by this Author It is deeply ironical that in the various court decisions relating to the salary disputes between the teachers and the government, the latter had its way. Yet, the government is now unwilling to pay what it said it could afford. The President, with his new penchant for making ill-advised public declarations, was quick to declare that he will not pay teachers. Nothing illustrates the danger that the Jubilee regime has become better than its treatment of teachers. JUBILEE'S CONTRADICTIONS Jubilee is its own greatest enemy. Its contradictions are now beyond many, they are fast becoming legendary. Why, for instance, does the government feel comfortable spending huge sums on the National Youth Service, including what is lost through corruption, and not on paying teachers?Is it not the case that the demographics of the teachers is just as youthful?
But the truth is that expecting the government to think better than they already do is to ask for far too much. Ours is a country where consistency does not matter; a country where internal contradictions form the stuff that makes politicians thrive. CHOREOGRAPHED PROCESS As such, it is not accidental that the government is refusing to pay teachers. The refusal is, in fact, the culmination of choreographed process. You just have to recall that when many Kenyans were opposed to taking the PEV suspects to the ICC, a group of politicians lined up to demand that Kofi Annan take the list to The Hague
When segments of the political class mounted a campaign to create a local mechanism, another segment, perhaps more powerful than the former, waged a counter campaign and enlisted the support of some of the suspects to defeat champions of the local mechanism.
Mr William Ruto was even ‘prophetic’ about it; arguing that by the time the cases are completed at the ICC, most of the suspects would be dead. He was wrong.The same logic applies to the teachers. The assumption that government only needs to hold on for so long and the teachers will give up seems to have informed the political thinking. In the long drawn-out duel between Knut and the TSC, many people within Jubilee have played different roles, changing positions and opinion almost at will.GOVERNMENT PROPOSED INCREMENT But facts remain; the proposal to pay teachers 50-60 per cent increment was not only provided by government, but was also sanctioned as affordable. We know that in the long history of this struggle, the current President and his Deputy have played various roles at different times. At one point, the DP negotiated a deal to end a strike. Let us remember that the current President was the minister in charge of the Treasury. It is for this reason that any excuse the President gives or any explanation government suggests is suspicious, diversionary and, quite frankly, unconvincing. Everything about the context of the teachers salary duel with government has seen the government have its way. It is, indeed, very embarrassing for the President to suggest, even if glibly, that the court was wrong to award teachers their due. This is because it is the government that proposed these rates. Indeed, we must let the President know that this attack on the courts is a sure way towards anarchy.CHIEF JUSTICE FAILURES One wonders if the reason behind the recent release and publication of the PAC Report and the emphasis on the so-called failures of the Chief Justice are not tied to a calculated attempt to push the courts to favour the government on the duel with teachers.
For how can one explain why a report done two years ago suddenly begins to gain traction in the media now? My parents are retired teachers; I know what we missed by the simple fact that teachers were underpaid.The Jubilee government must change this situation by honouring and paying the figures it presented to the courts. www.nation.co.ke/oped/Opinion/Government-proposed-to-pay-teachers-increment/-/440808/2876474/-/t2uwjez/-/index.html ~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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Post by mwalimumkuu on Sept 20, 2015 19:02:41 GMT 3
Meanwhile, the president is to address himself on this matter here shortly.
~~ Mwalimumkuu @nyumbakubwa ~~
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