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    "content": "professionals do. They are discriminated against as if it is their wish to be teachers. They are providing a very important service. If it was not for teachers today, Kenya would be in problems. I am warning this nation that if the teachers’ plight is not solved within the shortest time possible, there will be chaos. Students will burn schools and there will be increased cases of accidents on the roads. Teachers rarely teach. I can see that the Chair is really listening. We are very concerned about teachers. You find a teacher is teaching standard one, two and Three in one class. What I am worried about is this thing you are calling laptops. Who will teach standard one because this teacher is teaching Standard one, two and three in one class? How will you differentiate between standard one and two and yet they are in one room? That is something we need to think about. We are asking the Government to solve this problem of salaries, once and for all. Let there be professionalism in teaching so that a graduate who is at Job Group “K,” “L” and “M”, will earn the same salary as that professional who is in the Civil Service. Otherwise, we are mistreating teachers and yet, they are great thinkers. They are the think tanks of this country and one day we will regret. Madam Temporary Speaker, if you go to Egypt, Germany or the United States of America, teachers are the most highly paid professionals while in Kenya they are the least paid and yet they do the donkey work. I support this Motion. Let the teachers be paid and be listened to."
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