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    "id": 1214840,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Makilap",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Firstly, I want to declare I am a teacher of double Mathematics. I think this system of education was pushed to us by Bretton Woods institutions in very developed nations where income per capita is high. There is excess in their countries. The system of education we previously had, the 8-4-4 system, was highly rated. It was said that Kenya was offering the best education in the world. All of a sudden, the Bretton Woods institutions and our former colonisers realised we were catching up with them. What do they do to mess up Africa and mess up the country called Kenya? They introduced a system to cause confusion and kill our trajectory to success in education by bringing the CBC. I say that because if you want to finish a nation, mess up with their education system and everyone else will be confused forever. Look at the countries that have succeeded: France, Canada, name them. Our neighbour South Africa in Africa here tried the CBC for 12 years and it collapsed. Nine years down the line, I want to declare that CBC in Kenya is facing a crisis more than the economic crisis we are facing. It is due to collapse. How is it going to collapse? Schools have opened. Students in JSS are in school. They are not being taught. Why? The one teacher we recruited is even yet to report. The other primary school teachers in that school are not willing to attend to learners because of the requirement to teach in high school. One, you must have a mean grade of a C+ at Form 4 and you must have a mean grade of a C+ in two teaching subjects. Most primary school teachers do not meet that qualification. Therefore, they have no business teaching JSS in their schools. That leaves one teacher to operate like a robot who cannot cover the entire curriculum of 14 subjects. What does that mean? It is a collapse. It is a collapse. Despite Members of Parliament saying let us wait, how long will the JSS students in primary school wait until they are taught if we employed about 30,000 teachers and they are not enough to teach in all our JSS classes? In my constituency, a school called Yatiia does not have a JSS teacher to date. That is similar to another called Kosile, and many others that did not get teachers because the numbers were not enough. What is that one called? It is a collapse. This country must stop CBC now so that we bring back what is right for our children. If you look at the number of teachers required, if 30,000 gave us one teacher, you must recruit 150,000 teachers now to cover CBC. Is it possible? Yes, it is possible, but we do not have resources. If we do not have resources to employ the teachers, CBC collapses. Therefore, this system is destined to die in our schools in the next few days. I also want to say that the preparedness of teachers supposed to offer the JSS curriculum is not there. What does that mean, Hon. Temporary Speaker? We have poorly kept class eights with torn pairs of trousers or shorts and we have a JSS demanding school fees. Where do we get that? It tells you the way forward we should take now instead of creating a confused country."
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