Jinja employs civil servants to monitor teachers
Sep 06, 2011
JINJA district has deployed a team of civil servants to move around the district to monitor the attendance of teachers in the various schools.
By Charles Kakamwa
JINJA district has deployed a team of civil servants to move around the district to monitor the attendance of teachers in the various schools.
District education officer Abraham Were said the schools would be monitored on a daily basis until Friday.
He said during this period, the team would identify teachers who would have absconded from duty for disciplinary action.
The team established that in Buwenge town council, Buwenge rural and Buyengo sub-county, 96 teachers had not shown up.
Most teachers in Jinja turned up at their schools, but many of them remained in staffrooms, while others sat in groups chatting.
A few teachers taught, while others claimed they were waiting for the number of pupils to increase.
The turn up of pupils was low, both in Jinja municipality and in the rural schools, with some pupils seen playing. Others revised in groups, while others loitered around.
At Butiki primary school, 12 out of 28 teachers had arrived by 9:30am, but the number increased to 23 teachers by 10:30am.
Only 71 pupils out of 732 pupils had reported, but the headmaster, Daniel Kaduma, was optimistic that the number would increase.
At neighbouring Kiira College Butiki, the headmaster, Daniel Kaima, said all teachers were at the school by Sunday when most of the students reported.
JINJA district has deployed a team of civil servants to move around the district to monitor the attendance of teachers in the various schools.
District education officer Abraham Were said the schools would be monitored on a daily basis until Friday.
He said during this period, the team would identify teachers who would have absconded from duty for disciplinary action.
The team established that in Buwenge town council, Buwenge rural and Buyengo sub-county, 96 teachers had not shown up.
Most teachers in Jinja turned up at their schools, but many of them remained in staffrooms, while others sat in groups chatting.
A few teachers taught, while others claimed they were waiting for the number of pupils to increase.
The turn up of pupils was low, both in Jinja municipality and in the rural schools, with some pupils seen playing. Others revised in groups, while others loitered around.
At Butiki primary school, 12 out of 28 teachers had arrived by 9:30am, but the number increased to 23 teachers by 10:30am.
Only 71 pupils out of 732 pupils had reported, but the headmaster, Daniel Kaduma, was optimistic that the number would increase.
At neighbouring Kiira College Butiki, the headmaster, Daniel Kaima, said all teachers were at the school by Sunday when most of the students reported.