A past exam exercise. Details have emerged how a teacher collapsed and died due to pressure they were subjected to during marking of KCSE. [PHOTO/Standard]
Controversy continues to dog the exercise of marking KCSE exams.
It has emerged that a teacher who was part of the team marking KCSE Chemistry Paper 2 at Loreto High School in Limuru collapsed and died on the spot over fatigue.
According to the Standard, her colleagues said the pressure they were being subjected to during marking was what caused the death.
“The teacher from Kiongwani Secondary School in Makueni County might have been ailing from some life threatening condition like hypertension but the pressure at the marking centre definitely worsened the situation,” said a colleague teacher a reported by the Standard.
Another teacher said that this year they were subjected to unusually high levels of pressure and that they hardly got any free time to socialise with others.
In the previous years, the markers would finish their work at 4 pm and then take the rest of the day doing their own things.
However, this year they marked till 10 in the night before they woke up early morning to resume the exercise.
‘’The pressure to finish marking the papers by December 15 was so high that some teachers ended up marking up to 300 papers a day," he said.