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"content": "counties. We have so many cases of non-performing teachers and TSC has not bothered to find out why. Instead, TSC transfers such teachers to, say, Kabani, an area in Meru which is the coldest part of this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is high time we took education in this country seriously. We need an interactive opportunity between teachers and our children. I have nothing against somebody from North Eastern coming to teach in our schools but you cannot have all teachers in my local school coming from one place. How are these people going to interact with the children? Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you study the history of education in Finland, you will find a very serious feeding programme blended by teacher professionals. There are so many teachers with degrees. There are many teachers in primary schools who have Master’s degrees and some of them are pursuing PhDs. Ironically, the TSC seems to be dead on that; they are dumb to that fact. Surely, you put a lot of initiative and nobody recognises it. When you complain, you are transferred to North Eastern, Samburu or Turkana yet you are asking to be given an opportunity having gone back to school to upgrade oneself. It is high time we relooked the entire structure of TSC. The Government has a responsibility here. The TSC has become an animal and it needs to be shaped to conform to the requirements of our children. That is the reason why schools exist. Let us not transfer teachers for the sake of discipline, or just to be seen to be moving teachers. There must be a very serious reason for that to happen. I sympathise and empathise with the 59-year old man who was transferred from Kitui to a school called Kirimara in my constituency. It is the coldest part in Kenya. I had to go and plead with the relevant director at TSC for the transfer to be stopped. It is not fair to separate families with long distances. There are no expenses that are paid to cover these guys when they are delocalised. It is not fair at all. Let us have a policy that will guide the transfer, promotion and retirement of teachers in this country. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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