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    "id": 1472628,
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    "speaker_name": "Likuyani, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Innocent Mugabe",
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    "content": "that is going to suffer because of the shift. It is a generation we are losing because of poor planning. Education and health are the only things that the poor person can get directly from the Government. More importantly education can help poor families to transit to wealth. We see this. So, it is something that we should never compromise. On my second issue, when I look at this system, the child will spend close to 11 years in primary school and only three years in secondary school. If you look at the first initial system, it was seven years in primary school, then we had four years and two years. We have 11 years and three years now. Are we preparing this child adequately to face life in the university and college? The answer is no. We must rethink on the whole system and see how we can increase the number of years that these children will spend in high school, so that we prepare them adequately for the world, college and university. This will also help to solve the current problem that we have right now of transitioning to Grade 9 and lack of infrastructure. To arrest this situation, the Ministry of Education should work to have those children in Grade 8 right now transit to secondary school as Grade 9, as they make a decision. If possible, I propose we have primary school up to Grade 7, while Grades 8 and 9 go to secondary schools because they already have capacity, teachers, laboratories, workshops and libraries. We must not just look at it as a simple issue. We must relook, go back to the drawing board and address these issues of CBC properly. I support the Motion."
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