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    "id": 1472600,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1472600/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bumula, DAP-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Wanami Wamboka",
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    "content": "urgency. If the Government is serious, indeed, we must pursue that. We have a situation where we have one teacher in a school teaching all subjects. That is totally unacceptable. What are we preparing our children for? Can they really compete nationally and internationally? They cannot. Some of these teachers were not prepared to teach these subjects because it is a new curriculum. Most of these teachers, if not all, need re-tooling. They need refresher courses. They need to go back to school and be aligned to the new system. We have had situations where students are supposed to prepare for practical subjects but there are no practical materials to work with. Some of these teachers have never seen some of those materials they are supposed to use to engage students! At the end of the day, we find that teachers, parents, and Government do not understand the CBC) and how it works. How then do we expect a student to understand CBC? At the end of the day, the Government must be serious. When I was growing up, and even now, during any job interview we are asked for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) to gauge whether one is qualified for that job or not. Now, we have students who are passing through a very critical stage of learning. If these students were to go international, what would they use to determine their education qualifications? We are setting a very dangerous precedent. We have a situation where classes are going to be vacant in Form One, but we are struggling to accommodate students in primary schools where we do not have classes. Why can we not have a linkage of how we can address this issue so that at the end of the day, the students of Kenya do not suffer in the very hands of that Government which must protect them?"
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