Description:
This study was intended to find out the teacher’s perception on the influence of politics on secondary school curriculum implementation. The study was guided by three specific objectives which were:- to determine teachers level of satisfactory with politicians involvement in the development of the new curriculum , to establish weather teachers are involving in developing of a new curriculum, also lastly was to evaluate whether teachers are satisfied with the new secondary school curriculum. A sample of 100 respondents were involved, 10 secondary school stratified random sampling were used to select a population that has been divided into category. Method of data collection was questionnaire and interview. Findings were presented by using tables and then analyzed, discussed and recommendation was given. Mixed method approaches were used in this research as well as research design used was explanatory design. The findings revealed that the perception of Teachers on the influence of politicians on secondary school development and implementation of curriculum. Teachers perceived negatively that the interference of politicians in secondary school curriculum should be strictly prohibited not only in secondary school but also from primary level to university level, since politicians have no education professional to involve in development of the new curriculum. Also mixing politics and education is a dangerous problem that made the education to be irrelevant. Hence due to the findings obtained from the field, the researcher recommended that, the politicians should stop in involving developing a secondary school curriculum, teachers should be in involved much in developing a curriculum because are only people who knows what should be in the curriculum. Also the society should participate fully in developing a curriculum since the curriculum should meet the society needs