The headmaster of a school whose 12 candidates scored less than 100 marks in last year’s KCPE exam risks demotion.
On Tuesday last week, parents of Naibor Primary School held a protest and blocked headmaster Jackson Mugo’s office.
Mugo is the county Knut chairman.
Teachers Service Commission county director Abukar Hassan, county director of education Salesa Adano and Knut branch executive secretary Jackson Thangei met on Wednesday and formed a team to investigate the cause of poor performance.
It includes the quality assurance officer and the district education officer.
“The team will write a report and recommend the way forward,” Hassan said.
Yesterday Thangei said: “There is a policy that a headmaster whose candidates post less than 100 marks should be demoted. But I am trying to plead with the director to transfer him instead.”
Mugo, however, defended his performance, saying he has served in schools like Itiati, Miiri and Ngaini in Nyeri county and they all performed well in national exams.
He said the protest march was malicious and could have been sponsored by his opponents in the teachers’ union.
“We are holding elections next month,” Mugo told the Star.
He denied that his work in the union is interfering with his teaching job.
Mugo said a colleague takes over whenever he is attending to union matters.
He blamed the parents for not supporting the school and undermining his leadership.
The children of the majority of those who participated in the protest do not even attend this school, Mugo said.
Hassan said this month TSC will roll out performance contracts for school heads and teachers in both primary and secondary schools.
