It is now 12 years since I voluntarily left teaching with nothing to regret about. While I was a teacher, I once fought with an NGO executive who while drunk, dismissed the teaching profession as a disgrace. It is now apparent that being a teacher lowest that one can go in Kenya.
The loitokitok.com can attest that majority of bodaboda operators in Loitokitok are at least more comfortable and stress-free than majority of teachers. They go to work as they want. They work under no supervision. They decide which routes to operate on and what to carry on their motor bikes.
Teachers do donkey work without an iota of liberty. They operate under the insurmountable weight of a curriculum, syllabus, scheme of work, lesson plan and lesson notes. They are supervised by a galaxy of those above them who include: heads of departments, deputy head teachers, head teachers, inspectors of schools, County Directors and the Teachers Service Commission officials. They are monitored round the clock by parents and politicians.
In the final analysis, they are paid peanuts; and since unlike their counterparts in the civil service, they have no lee-way for any corrupt deals, they languish in perpetual poverty and misery.
Much recently, banks and other agencies have chipped in to add to the list of those taking advantage of teachers’ misery. Most teachers knowingly or unknowingly, work for banks that are right into their bone-marrow!
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