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    "id": 1119775,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1119775/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "November 3, 2021 SENATE DEBATES 6 Sen. Halake",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Petition fully and wholly. If there is anything that I can do to make it happen, then I will. The people that we give mandate to come with what should be included in our curriculum such as the KICD are our experts. When they research, use their expertise and tell us what we should do then we have to listen to them. As I speak, children in international schools, where the parents have the means, already have a head start. They organize chess tournaments and there is actually a robust chess calendar in this country. Leaving the Kenyan mainstream education system without the advantage of critical thinking that comes with the competency-based programme that we are introducing will be denying them an opportunity to include new ways of doing things, which is part of modernizing our education system. For a long time, our education system has been disconnected from the realities in the work place and life. Through chess, we will have a group of children who will be taught to think. You are a teacher and you must have seen the deterioration in our education system. We are churning out students who spew crammed content as opposed to learning how to think and adapt. We should put our resources in a curriculum that will teach our children to think, analyze and exert themselves. The time for this has come. Resources should be availed for chess. In any case, there are parents who take their children for chess lessons and those children go through the chess calendar that exists parallel to the mainstream calendar. This country needs equalization. We have to make sure that all our children are equal. We should not have other children doing activities that the others cannot do because there is no money for them. There is so much money in this country that should be invested in our children, their future and their thinking. I congratulate Mr. Sagwe and the citizens of Mombasa for asking us to look into the advice that was given by the KICD who we actually pay. If there is need for resources, then this House should ensure that those resources are availed for chess and other extra-curricular, which will help us produce citizens who think, analyze and strategize. Those are the citizens who will take the new economy and the new education curricular. Those citizens can function in any part of the world."
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