KUPPET Wants Decision to Domicile JSS in primary schools Reconsidered
According to KUPPET, the PWPER’s cardinal mistake was to deviate from the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) implementation plan, which had guided the new curriculum for five years, without thinking through its recommendations.
KUPPET asserts that the government should domicile JSS in secondary schools, as the State Department for Early Learning and Basic Education has already invested in addressing some of the shortfalls that have emerged in anticipation of this transition.
KUPPET believes that keeping learners in primary schools any longer than the next school holiday would be tantamount to wasting their entire academic year.
They claim that wherever JSS is domiciled, challenges are bound to ensue, and postponing the problem until next year would be worse.
KUPPET argues that it is common sense to build more classrooms in secondary schools, which already have laboratories, rather than creating whole new infrastructures like labs in primary schools.
The union claims that indicators of the building crisis include ineffective delivery of the curriculum in public schools.
They state that the government has posted only one JSS teacher per school, who is grossly overburdened in handling nine lessons per day covering 14 compulsory learning areas.
Additionally, primary schools where JSS is domiciled lack critical infrastructure for JSS, including laboratories, libraries, and facilities for extracurricular activities.
KUPPET is calling for a thorough crisis management of JSS, saying that only a stakeholders’ meeting can address these problems before they metamorphose into a full-blown crisis.
KUPPET national chairman, Omboko Milemba, joined in the debate, saying that the country is not late to correct the controversies noted in the last month.
KUPPET Wants Decision to Domicile JSS in primary schools Reconsidered
