Decision on teachers IT is too early to put teachers off

IT is too early to put teachers off the payroll.
We are still in February, the month of resumption. The academic year begins this month.
In Thursday’s The National, Teaching Services Commission chairman Baran Sori said only 12,000 teachers are on the payroll while the rest are off it.
He said this was done in accordance with the records and reports received by the education department from schools around the country.
These 12,000 teachers are just one-sixth of the total number of teachers around the country. The rest, around 44,000 teachers, are off the payroll.
These 12,000 teachers are likely to be from schools within the National Capital District, Central and Gulf.
The Teaching Services Commission should wait for another month before it considers putting teachers off the payroll.
If Baran Sori leaves his office in Waigani and travels to provincial education offices around the country he will personally ascertain that the appointment and resumption processes are still going on.
The signing of the RODSS by the appointment officers and provincial education advisers are continuing.
The signed RODSS will take time, about two months, to reach Waigani.
With that I would like to call upon the TSC to refrain from this exercise of placing teachers off the payroll until April.
This would be appropriate then doing what you think is best hastily without closely examining the hiccups and issues faced by the education divisions in provinces nationwide
If this piece of advice is not taken into account and complied to, then teachers will feel the pinch and walk off their classrooms leaving the poor students to suffer.

SSN Chalkdust
Bulolo