Resolve teachers’ pay row once and for all

The dispute on teachers’ salaries that started during Kanu’s regime must be resolved once and for all.

Teachers work hard and smart, ensuring there is progress in society by educating our children. Great people like professors, doctors, lawyers and journalists, who passed through the hands of teachers, are earning higher salaries than the teachers who taught them at their tender ages.

We should all support teachers to get their pay rise of 50-60 per cent since this will motivate them to deliver the required standard of education.

{Samuel Mbari, Nyandarua}

Our political leaders are really failing the country, not only for now, but even the future generations.

It is rather strange that at a time when well over 12 million students in public schools are languishing at home, leaders from the Jubilee coalition are busy in their hypocritical ICC ‘prayer’ rallies in various parts of the country.

How I wish they could come out in such large numbers in solidarity with teachers, learners and parents of this nation. To them, teachers are second-rate citizens.

A country where learning in public schools is perennially disrupted by industrial disputes has a bleak future, yet our leaders are least bothered.

Nehru Mangicho