Saboteurs of USE are known!

Aug 30, 2007

EDITOR—I have read several reports in the media that the education minister is worried about the poor turn-up of teachers posted to rural schools. Recently, Namirembe Bitamazire complained that 6,000 teachers had declined to take their appointments.

EDITOR—I have read several reports in the media that the education minister is worried about the poor turn-up of teachers posted to rural schools. Recently, Namirembe Bitamazire complained that 6,000 teachers had declined to take their appointments.

What, however, the minister did not state was why the teachers had refused to assume their positions in the rural areas.

If truth be told, it is not that teachers do not want to work in rural areas. the reality is that many of the teachers (actually all of them), who were posted to seed schools in February are not on payroll!

How does Bitamazire and her team expect a person to survive far from home in the countryside without salary? These schools cannot pay the teachers an upkeep allowance and in the absence of salary, they opt to go back to the urban schools. At least this explains who the real saboteurs of the Universal Secondary Education scheme is.

Tom Odeke
Mbale



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