Nasa leader Moses Wetangula. He has said that they will not allow poorly performing teachers to be moved to their schools. [Photo/Star]
NASA co-principal Moses Wetangula has once again opposed the mass transfer of school principals, saying the move only undermines what some of them have done in their various schools.
According to Wetangula, many of the principals have been moved from well-performing schools and transferred to ‘lowly placed’ schools that have been performing poorly.
Speaking on Thursday, Wetangula said there was no need to disrupt the learning trend in most institutions in the name of equality.
“There is no need in removing a teacher who is performing and there is absolutely no rationale merit or philosophy in saying a teacher cannot serve in a school for more than nine years, what is the basis?”
He added: “Institutions have been built by people who are determined and who stay there. So I only want to urge you, we as the political leadership will stand by you as teachers. And we want to put it on notice that we are not rejecting any teacher because of their ethnicity,”
He further added that they will not allow teachers from other areas who will only lower the standards and achievements made by hard-working teachers who are being moved elsewhere.
“We also know that this region produces some of the best teachers in this country. We cannot produce good teachers and then we get substandard teachers from elsewhere to come run-down our schools,” he went on.