Teachers say education inequality affecting marginalized areas

Teachers are now urging the government to ensure that proper education systems are set up in marginalized areas to ensure that learners in the areas have access to quality education like their counterparts countrywide.

Through their unions, Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), teachers have expressed their concerns at the worrying state of education standards in the marginalized areas.

The teachers, who were speaking during a two-day workshop in Kitengela and organized by the Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC), the Ministry of Education and the County Governments, said they have come up with an initiative ‘Indigenous People in Education’ to promote quality education in marginalized areas.

Indigenous People in Education is advocating for the right to education of every child in the country without any form of discrimination whatsoever.

KNUT Secretary General, Wilson Sossion, challenged the government to beef up security in the volatile regions like Baringo, Lamu, and North Eastern to actualize the idea of ‘Education for all’.

“Currently, more than 1,200 pupils in Kajiado County have no teachers as a result of uneven deployment of teachers by the TSC,” said Sossion.

The workshop had brought together teachers and unions’ leaders from marginalized communities and areas often witnessing violence affecting education.

Written by Majanga Michael