Private schools across Kisii County reopened today as most of the public schools in the area remained closed.
This is teachers in the public institutions push the government to honour their demands.
According to the Kisii Private School association chairperson Biliah Boyani, the schools will not be affected by the strike in public schools countrywide.
She said that all private schools in Kisii are standing tall as the best as the teachers’ boycott takes a toll on parents and pupils from public schools.
Currently, teachers are on strike in bid to press the government to increase their pay by honouring a 1997 salary deal which would see their perks increased.
Their unions are also pushing for the recruitment of 40,000 new teachers for secondary and primary schools, employment of 24, 000 nursery school instructors, promotions of their members and harmonisation of salaries and allowances with those of civil servants, among other issues.
The realisation that the government was not going to honour the salary deal made teachers down their tools which affects millions of Kenya’s public schools students.
Sadly, the industrial action is coming barely months after another that took place in September last year.