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    "id": 1092293,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1092293/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to make my comments on the Petition by Mary and Isaac Njoroge, on behalf of the young ones. This is a very good Petition because in the first several weeks after the marking of exams, there was a lot of talk within the social media, other media and even on the streets that the marking process may have favoured public schools against private schools. This has gone on and it was almost dying. I am happy that this Petition has come up so that we can have a forensic audit of the processes that were undertaken during the marking. The teachers who mark examinations are professionals and are trained to mark. Therefore, there is a particular way in which marking is done. I am a trained examiner. The examiners are very professional. I also want to indicate that originally, there was a style and belief of marking where after marking, a normal curve was produced by calculating what is called in marking “the grade point average”. The grade point average produces a normal curve. In the process, those who score very highly are moderated and those who score very lowly are equally moderated. When the former Cabinet Secretary for Education, Hon. Fred Matiang'i joined the Ministry, he removed the idea of grade point average. So, there is no moderation in marking nowadays. I am happy that even though that is no longer happening, we shall have a chance as the Departmental Committee on Education and Research to scrutinise the process and see if there was any other method that was used apart from the normal marking methods that are used. Hon. Speaker, there has been a lot of imagination that public schools cannot perform. This, again, should get out of the thinking of Kenyans because with the improved infrastructure, which the Government continues to do, if we get more teachers for our schools – in fact, the most serious problem in public schools is lack of teachers – we shall actually have public schools performing better. There is no correlation between mock examinations and online learning on one hand and the KCPE results on the other as indicated in this Petition. Therefore, as we face this Petition as the Departmental Committee on Education and Research, I would wish that it is done appropriately so that finally a proper report can be given on the results of the 2021 Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination in order to disabuse the notion that the teachers who were marking the exams have done anything that is against the marking norms of exams. Surely, they are trained examiners. I thank you."
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