Parents and education stakeholders in Nakuru County have called on better remuneration of teachers to realise better results.
Reacting to the just released Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examinations results, the parents argued that frustrations of teachers by the government is impacting negatively on pupils' results.
"As long as the government will continue to frustrate teachers, then results in public schools will continue deteriorating," argued John Odongo.
His sentiments were echoed by Elizabeth Mungai who said there is need to address teachers issues before to better examinations results.
"You can't whip your cow when you want to milk it and expect to get any milk from it. That is the same predicament the government finds itself in," she said.
Retired Nakuru municipal education officer Patrick Mureithi also argued that it was prudent to remunerate teachers adequately to reduce teacher absenteeism and perennial strikes.
The results released on Wednesday by Education CS Fred Matiang'i at Mitihani House showed a sharp decline in the mean score of public schools compared to private schools, an occurrence which could have been necessitated by prolonged teachers strike early and late in the year over pay increment issues.