Students in most public schools in Mombasa County stayed at home despite last Friday’s court order suspending the teachers’ strike.
Classrooms in most public schools in the county were empty with only a few form four students and standard eight pupils revising on their own.
One of the form four students in one of the public secondary school, Joseph Sigo told journalist they have formed a group discussion with a few of the students who had turn up.
Sigo said most of the students are not ready to sit for the national examinations which are due to start on October 12 for KCSE and mid-November for KCPE.
“It’s us, the students who are suffering when teachers go on strike. With the little time remaining before the exams start, we appeal to the teachers to end their strike and return to classes and help us in our revision,” said Sigo.
Most schools remained closed despite the government releasing new dates for opening schools set to start on September 28.
The Employment and Labour Relations Court had on Friday directed the two teacher’s union to suspend the strike to give dialogue a chance.
Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) Secretary General Wilson Sossion, however, directed its members to continue with the strike.
“The teachers are still on strike and they will not go to school until the conditions we set are met,” said Sossion.