Teachers justifying their move pointed fingers at parents for neglecting their core role in disciplining students contributing to the upsurge of the cases.
KUPPET Demands Guns For Teachers, Boarding Schools Abolished
The government should provide security training and guns for teachers deployed in volatile regions of the country, the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) has demanded.
According to acting KUPPET Secretary General Moses Nthurima, armed teachers would be better poised to deal with attackers.
“We are repeating this demand that in the pockets of insecurity, teachers must be trained and provided with guns. You cannot confront a gunman with chalk. When we take a teacher to insecurity prone areas that teacher will constantly live in fear. But if the gun is hanging on his back even bandits will know that teacher is a no-go zone and they will take a second thought before making any mistake,” said Nthurima.
THE STANDARD By
Augustine Oduor |
January 29th 2021 at 01:05:00 GMT +0300
Fire fighters put out off fire in a dormitory at Kisumu Boys High School on Tuesday. The police are yet to establish the cause of the fire. [Collins Oduor, Standard]
Task forces called for streamlining of boarding schools and establishing guidance and counselling departments.
The government is in a spot for failing to fully implement task force reports that proposed solutions to end student’s unrest.
In a detailed account, Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (Kuppet) exposed government’s laxity to act on perennial fires that have led to loss of property and learning time.