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    "content": "However, without repeating what has already been said, I would like to make a few remarks. I will, first of all, begin with the primary education. We would like to ask ourselves and continue to interrogate the amount that is being spent in the primary schools. Yet from the indications, less than 50 per cent of the pupils actually transit to secondary schools. We need to seriously address this high level of wastage. There are also regional disparities in this transition. I am saying this because as I travelled round my constituency, I found that actually less than 30 per cent transit from primary to secondary school. If we have this partially funded secondary education, how do students from my constituency benefit, if three-quarters of them are not represented in secondary schools? Again here, I would like to ask the Ministry to seriously address the question of transition from primary to secondary school. Secondly, we need to rationalise the secondary and national schools. I am happy that now there will be a “national school” in every constituency. I would like to thank the Ministry most sincerely because I believe that if we get schools in each constituency to the standards of the national schools that are all dotted around a few areas around the City, this may help us to not only address the question of equity in education, but also possibly the question of national reconciliation and more understanding of communities in different areas. We need, nonetheless, to address the question of academies. I am sure this has been said over and over again. Our national schools are still being predominantly fed by private primary schools. The people who are supposed to benefit are still not the ones who get there because most of the rich parents are already used to spending. Parents whose children are in these academies are used to paying over Kshs100,000 per term for their children in primary schools. They then move quickly into our national schools and end up paying very little, yet they were used to paying a lot of money. So, I think it is a question of rationalising whether we should not have a situation where children coming from private academies should again transit into private secondary schools, so that they continue to pay since they are used to that."
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