Dear Sir/Madam
Let me begin by saying that I have learnt a very big lesson from the COVID 19 pandemic. Being a classroom teacher, I take two subjects in the candidate class. Furthermore I have twenty other lessons in the other classes. My workload is over 27 lessons per week, I’m a consultant during academic clinics, and I deliver lengthy speeches during parents meeting. The list is endless, but alas, am not a teacher. This what keeps my anger growing.
Little did I know that you are not a teacher until you are employed by the Teacher Service Commission. This statement keeps on ringing in my mind and see it as a big joke. I think of my worsening situation and the title that I carry. For now am not a teacher until everything comes back to normal.
How can a teacher be classified as vulnerable in the society! Be given ugali and green grams by well-wishers? How can a teacher go for six months as it is going to be without pay?
Do we call a teacher that person who survives in a single unhealthy meal in a day terming breakfast as luxury? That person who is locked out of his/her rental house due to rent arrears! My image and self-esteem has been tarnished. I have become the village laughing stalk because I can’t meet my basic needs anymore.
Am I a citizen of this country and contribute my share in building the nation. Where is the government that insists only registered teachers should teach?
Am I not registered!!
We are not teachers, we only qualify to be teachers. Am in pain, we are in pain. We have no one to run to except you The Almighty Lord. Oh God hear our prayers.
BOM teachers united we stand, let them feel our anger pain and agony. We hope and pray to restore what we have lost.
Yours faithfully
A BOM Teacher