When we politicise teachers' jobs we weaken pillars of governance

Portrait of an arithmetic math teacher holding a pointer stick. [Courtesy, iStock]

There are many ways to destroy a nation - but few are as insidious, humiliating and dangerous as turning the dignity of public service into a political circus.

In recent times, no scene captures our national decay more vividly than politicians-many of them aligned with the Kenya Kwanza regime-waving Teachers Service Commission (TSC) employment forms in the air like prizes at funerals and rallies. This is not leadership. This is transactional politics at its lowest, where lives are reduced to campaign tokens and the sacred calling of teaching is dragged into the mud of political expediency.