The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has announced punishment for head teachers in schools that have been registering poor performance.
The Commission is set to demote principals whose schools will be posting poor grades for more than three years.
According to a memorandum from the authority, the school heads will lose their managerial roles and be forced to take back the teaching chores if their schools post a mean grade of less than three points consecutively.
The recommendations titled Deployment and Transfer of Head Teachers also advocate for redeployment of the principals whose schools post poor results.
“The Commission directs that head teachers who record declining trends in academic performance should be cautioned in writing and appropriate action taken to address the gap,” the circular reads.
Upon demotion, the heads could be required to resume teaching duties, administer and mark assignments just like the ordinary teachers among other roles.
The directive was, however, disputed by the Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) which stated that academic performance should not be used to assess teachers.
“Poor staffing and infrastructure is the identity of most of the schools which post such weak grades. We are not going to accept academic performance as an indicator for promotions and determining the fate of heads,” stated the Union.
