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    "speaker_name": "Taita Taveta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Haika Mizighi",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. From the outset I want to support and congratulate Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba for this well thought Motion. I want to say education is an equaliser and there are several things which go with it. School children come from different backgrounds and it is only uniforms that make them look or feel equal. I support standardisation of school uniforms because they are good for identification. I remember I was in a day school and at times another school would misbehave yet we had a similar uniform. So, we would read in the newspaper that some students from a certain school were misbehaving somewhere or had indiscipline cases. Since their uniform resembled ours, they could not differentiate which school it was. Therefore, I support this Motion but uniforms should not appear the same. Let us allow a variety of colours but standardisation should come at a point where we should not allow students to go to school in home clothes. When it comes to school uniform, I agree and support it should be allowed because it instils discipline in schools. This is because students look the same in uniform and it is easy for them to conduct themselves in a disciplined manner. This is unlike everybody coming with a design that they want; and therefore, the feeling in school is not in harmony. Some will feel they are better than others; some will feel they have dressed more expensively than the others and therefore, demoralising those who cannot afford the said uniform. Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is a very good idea only that it needs to be supported. There are some schools that have taken advantage of this issue of uniform. You will find a situation where parents have bought uniforms where they can afford but when they get to school, they are told that is not the one that they want. They are in business. They therefore, make parents return the other uniform that they had already bought and probably, cheaper and made to buy the expensive uniforms being sold in schools. It has become more of a business, and thus a discouragement to parents. I have witnessed this where I have supported students going to school; and have severally, been told that the uniform we bought in a certain shop was not the right one. When 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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