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"speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to make a few points which I think can benefit us and all Kenyans about CBC. This Motion was brought by Hon. Kaluma and I want to thank him. I wish to say there are four points which Members are focusing on. There are those Members who are talking about the ability to stop CBC and going back to 8-4-4. I would wish to plainly explain to the country as a teacher and educationist that CBC has been around for nine years. So, when making our final deliberations on it, we should understand it began nine years ago. We should understand that students went through PP1 and PP2 and now, they are in Junior Secondary School. If you completely wrap it today, it means these students will be completely wasted because they never did the 8-4-4 system, and going back to the 8-4-4 will be extremely difficult for them to undertake. As we make our final resolutions, we should put that into consideration: That this is a population of students who we must take care of. It is very important that we deal with the matter at hand and agree that there is a crisis in this particular area, but deal with it diligently so that we do not waste a whole population of students who are in school. There is also the issue of teachers and Members grappling with why one class should have one teacher, and whether it can work or not? I wish to explain that the working of the three primary school sector curricula is different from the one of secondary schools. In the primary schools’ curriculum, teachers are taught to teach many subjects and, therefore, you can provide one teacher for one class and they are able to model around and succeed. However, once we have the CBC, which is bringing Junior Secondary School education, then the calculation of the number of teachers, Hon. Kaluma, must now go to the curriculum based establishment. In a curriculum-based establishment, you look at the curriculum vis a vis the combination of the subjects of teachers who are in school. You are then able to calculate a certain ratio of the number of teachers who will be in school. If we go that direction, everything would be wrong. Hon. Kaluma, on the number of teachers in a school, it can never be one because they should be a number based on the curriculum establishment of every school, and also based on the number of subjects that are being offered. I hear they are 14 but they have been reduced to 12 and so on. The solution, therefore, lies within the ongoing CBC way, and that means employment of more teachers in our schools. The CBC is certainly having a number of challenges ranging from those that concern infrastructure to the ones that have been raised by Members today. As Kenyans, we must take responsibility. There is a risk which my Government, which I now serve, the Kenya Kwanza, is easily saying that this system was brought by the previous Government. If we go that direction, then we shall kill the students who are in school. We must inherit this problem. In fact, the way it is, it was implemented in a hurry. This is one of the projects that made some Kenyans go home completely. Hon. Sossion who was completely against this system had to pay the price for not supporting it. It was still thrust to us. We must, therefore, carry it and see how we can re-model it in order to move forward without killing the students who are in school. There is also the issue of teachers. It is very easy to blame the teachers for having tried to cook chicken, trying to bring a desk or send students home for something. Let me tell this 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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