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"speaker_name": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi (",
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"content": "The other day, I went to a school whose name I will not mention, and I was so angry. First of all, it is not just the board. You receive a new teacher, and one year down the line, the school deteriorates, and money is lost. When you look at the history of the teachers, they are being taken care of by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), yet in every school they have taught, they have created a mess. I said, no, it cannot be this way. Instead of the board bringing a solution, they protested in the school the next day. I told the sub-county heads I wanted seriousness because they know I do not joke with education in Dagoretti North. This is why I am here. For instance, you will find a school where you are about to support them with Ksh30 million NG-CDF funds to build a hall. The board decides and tells you that the parents will contribute Ksh34 million. I asked them: Do you have pending bills in your school yet want to spend Ksh64 million to build a hall? Where does that work? Why do you have pending bills? Why can you not pay pending bills?\" We need the Sub-County Education Boards, where you are an ex-officio member, to come in and start streamlining things in schools. This is because some things we do to our parents do not make sense. When you look at how parents pay school fees, most of them are on the line of Ksh15,000. You have a huge debt, but your parents can pay Ksh15,000. I asked Jogoo House why they cannot resolve that parents pay Ksh15,000 because that is what they can afford rather than waiting for the child to get to Form 4 and then withholding their results slips. That is why we need this board. It will enable us to come up with resolutions and send them to the counties, which will then advise the Cabinet Secretary. In 80 per cent of extra county schools, parents can pay school fees of less than Ksh17,000. It is a curve that shows their ability. We need to think. When you make it Ksh23,000, the school finds itself in debt, and the money will never be paid. We then fight and have nowhere to sit and agree. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Education Act wanted us to do things in a certain way, and it must now be done properly, just as Hon. Murugaru said. Honestly, it is time this House agreed on equitable distribution of teachers. I am not saying you cannot do affirmative action in other schools, but can we start at a level of equity? We have 290 constituencies, with some having 1,000 schools. That is where you look at affirmative action but at a curve that is equal. First, you ensure equity in the schools and implement affirmative action in areas with many schools. You find a school with 38 teachers employed by the Board of Management (BOM). It means that the school is run by BOM. There are many county schools where parents are the ones who are taking care of the teachers. You have about five or six TSC teachers; the rest are under the BOM. Interestingly, TSC has never come up with a new system for rewarding a BOM teacher teaching biology and chemistry, whose subject raises the mean grade of that school. That is a TSC teacher who is still under BOM. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I support Hon. Wamaua, we must be serious with the education sector if we want to see a serious CBC. Thank you."
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