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    "id": 1214887,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1214887/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martha Wangari",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, I know many issues have been canvassed, and I will not talk back to them. I want to make sure that the issues are flagged out. The one thing I hope we will do is that it will not just be talking in vanity and an exercise in futility. The Departmental Committee on Education of this House should take this Hansard to the Ministry of Education and relay to them what Members have said here, because it is not personal. For one, we must ensure that every public primary school is gazetted as a junior secondary school. Let us start there because we have private schools going on right now. Look at the discrepancies between where our children school and where other kids are schooling. Public primary schools have a disadvantage. If you tell a kid in a school called Oldubei, which is in my constituency, that it was not gazetted because it did not have 45 children, what are you telling the children in that schools? You are telling them that they will have to walk 10 kilometres to Nderit Primary School or Oldubei Primary School. That is an 11-year-old. What are we saying? We are talking of scavengers, mafisi and criminals on the roads who may molest 12-year-old girls who need to walk to school. We have built infrastructure. Let them speak to the schools and let every school be gazetted. That way, we will minimise congestion in the other schools. Secondly, it is this issue of naming them “junior secondary schools.” The Ministry must re-look at it. Let them be upper primary schools—whatever you call them. That is so that administration of these schools is under one roof. If you say the signatory to the account of a junior secondary school is a head teacher who is a primary school teacher and a member of the board, the confusion we are talking about is not a small thing. The issue of administration must be dealt with as we deal with the issue of teachers. It may look like we are fighting this system but we are just improving it. There are several things to do to make it a better system, even without reversing. Finally, as I finish, because I can see my light is on, is the issue of uniform. The best schools in the United States of America do not make their kids wear uniform."
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