A secondary school in Gatundu North Sub-County has employed seven teachers to prepare form four candidates sit their KCSE exams set to begin on October 12.
St Joseph the Worker Mixed Secondary School principal Titus Gathu said Tuesday the school through the Board of Governors (BOG) employed the teachers during the second week of September in order to keep the students in school.
“The decision to hire the teachers was made by the school’s governing board even before the teachers went on strike. It was not an effort to undermine the teachers’ industrial action but to boost the welfare of students whose life would be ruined if no supervision was done in this delicate moment,” Gathu said.
Gathu, however, revealed his support for the strike but admitted that administrative decisions must have been followed to keep things running.
“The teachers who were hired are taking home Sh9,000 per month and are currently teaching the form four students who are about to sit their KCSE,” he added.
The head teacher said before the ministry’s directive to close all schools, his 110 students were being taught by the new teachers.
The hired teachers are university graduates in education where two of them are last year’s best performing students from that school with grade A and A- respectively.