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    "id": 1092404,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Narok CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Soipan Tuya",
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        "legal_name": "Roselinda Soipan Tuya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to add my voice to this very important issue raised by the Hon. Keter. The policy on a 100 per cent transition is very important because without this policy we would be asking ourselves: where did the children who did not transition from primary school to secondary school go to? What is the reason they are not transitioning to secondary schools? Of utmost importance is that as we implement this policy we need to know where these children are going to. Yesterday, I was having a chat with a principal of the best performing school in Narok, Naikara Secondary School in Narok West. He was telling me that the practical capacity of the school is 300 students. However, those posted to the school are 450. You ask yourself: where are all these children going to? It is a health hazard. We are in the midst of a pandemic, the COVID- 19. We are talking about social distancing! Even, hygienically, lumping kids together almost in double numbers to what the infrastructure in the schools can hold, is a crisis! When I was talking to the principal, I told him that the school is the best performing school in Narok, but now the enrolment waters down the quality of teaching. The net effect of that would be poor performance in schools. Classrooms are going to be full and yet we are not having more teachers posted to the schools. We do not even have enough classrooms. It is going to reverse the gains that we are otherwise making in the education sector in our counties. We should ask ourselves: are we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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