Africa-Press – Lesotho. You have to marvel at the audacity of civil servants to demand a 25 percent salary increase. Curiously, the loudest yells for more money are coming from some of the most indolent civil servants.
The police and teachers, in particular. Holy dung! Teachers have not been teaching for the past three years. The police last solved a serious case five years ago.
All are as replaceable as pee. Just drink some water and you are off to the bathroom again. The Lesotho College of Education and NUL are minting teachers as fast as teachers are churning out bad grades.
If you throw a stone in the bus stop area you are more likely to hit a qualified teacher than a shepherd. That’s how many they are in Lesotho. Muckraker can bet her last penny that most teachers will dismally fail a test in a subject and grade they teach.
Most Grade Seven teachers will fail a Grade Seven examination. Honest teachers know this is possible. The point is that those demanding a 25 percent salary bump should be nowhere near their jobs.
You can hear it from their excuses when the Form E results are released. It’s always the lack of resources or students who are not exerting themselves.
A teacher is the only professional who can completely damage or neglect their product (student) and still get paid. There are no personal consequences for being a terrible teacher.
Its trash in and trash out. When the results are bad, you can always blame it on the lack of resources, the curriculum and the students. As for the police, there is no point in wasting ink on them.
It takes six months of running and singing to be a police officer. There is nothing complicated about torturing suspects and demanding bribes. Most of them will faint after running for 20 metres.
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