<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">This is very saddening</div>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 September 2011 20:32, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Listers,<br>Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in<br>the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will<br>
find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is<br>disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper<br>scientific methods.<br><br>I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did<br>
not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union<br>officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas<br>(often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use<br>
marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will<br>continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal<br>areas will decline.<br><br>Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially<br>
on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have<br>outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives<br>in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears<br>responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance<br>
apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home.<br>Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam<br>to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on<br>
large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we<br>stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any<br>nation.<br><br><br>Regards<br><br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br><br><br>----------------------------------------------<br>
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