Subject head teachers to vetting, performance contracts

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“If your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell” - Mathew 5:30

Based on this biblical exhortation, it would be better, in my view, to salvage the teaching profession by cutting off the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), for it is the member that could easily drive teaching into abyss. Yes, by hiding behind TSC, which has not demonstrated it is administratively superior to previous arrangements under the direct control of the ministry; head teachers are refusing to be subjected to controls. There is nothing special TSC does that a department within the Ministry of Education cannot do. As Members of Parliament scheme on how to suffocate the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, they would be doing this country a favour by including the TSC. To an extent, it will aid the government in cutting down on the wage bill.