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    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will also be brief. Let me begin by congratulating the teachers of Kenya who are toiling with CBC and JSS without facilities. Nobody remembers them. They imagine that whatever happens in the school is because of them. The truth is that no money is sent to schools. Therefore, they cannot get the equipment they need for teaching the children in this country. The real matter lies with the fact that all we need in our schools is funding. The teachers have no problem. Many Members have spoken about the number of chickens that are taken to schools. However, they forget that, sometimes, teachers also request students to take cow dung to school. The education system must change with time. The A-Level system of education that we had cannot work today. The 8-4-4 education system has outlived its time. It was like a factory that was manufacturing many students who could not get employment. It was theoretical. There is, indeed, a need for change, a reality we cannot escape. The House must embrace CBC because it is the modern way to go in the education system. Despite its many challenges, it is the correct way to go because it will build skills, information, technology and how a person can carry himself around society without depending on white-collar employment. However, it has challenges. We envisage in the CBC that every school should have a complete school. Basic education must begin from Early Childhood Development (ECD) to primary, JSS and secondary school. That is a standard school that should be equal in the whole country. We envisage that this will enable the Government to fund schools equally. The funding of a rural primary school and that of Mang’u High School will be the same. The provision of education at those levels should be the same. That is how education will be an equalizer. I ask this Parliament to support CBC. It will bring money and development to your small schools and grow them to the level of Alliance High School. There is a danger that I must point out. That is why Hon. Ruku is right. The Ministry of Education imagines that the two years that the students spend in the JSS are too long. Let me caution that one year is already gone. In the following year, the students in JSS must leave it to another pathway and yet, there is no policy and pathway of how they will operate. When we finish the following year, we shall be in a crisis of how they will join the next level. It is 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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