Monday 10 September 2018

Our Teachers Deserve Better

Do you know Sarreh Dompho or Touba Wapa, in the URR? I bet most of us don’t because they’re in the sticks. But do you know that despite the quality of life in these places, some fellow I know, born and bred in Kombo is there making sure that kids there have an education?

Do you also know that to date, since its approval that is, some of them say they’re yet to feel the delectation of the improved civil service Transport Allowance, while some official living in Kanifing going to work somewhere on Kairaba Avenue is?

Do you know that after graduation from the college, some of these teachers are caused to wait months before deployment because someone responsible somewhere was dragging feet? So the raise they seek isn’t salary, because they know the time of the fiscal year it is. 

What they seek is equity and their right to basic dignity. Disregarding which claim will only make it easy for private schools to keep winnowing out the grains (teachers and students) from your public schools, and you'll keep wondering why the ones that keep on against their will cannot make grains out of chaffs.

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