A children affairs officer has called on parents to ensure their children remain busy as the teachers strike to disrupt learning across the country.
Speaking in his offices on Monday, County co-ordinator for children affairs Abdi Sheikh Yusuf noted that now that most children remained idle. He emphasized that it was a parent’s responsibility to ensure their children especially teenagers keep themselves busy arguing that in most cases, idleness is disastrous will have negative outcome.
Sheikh Yusuf further called for collective responsibility in matters to do with children saying that a spoiled child will affect the whole society not a specific family.
“Let be our children keepers because at the end of the day, we are to blame as parents and care givers,” he said.
Some students had formulated groups that occasionally met at different homes on specific days to discuss something Abdi is in total disagreement with.
Teachers have paralysed learning operations across the country demanding for a 50-60% pay hike awarded to them by the court but their employer Teachers Service Commission (TSC) remains adamant that there is no money to facilitate the increment.
On Monday, TSC instructed school heads to take a roll call of teachers who will be available in school threatening to take action on those absent on grounds that they have absconded duty.