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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Report of the Committee on Education, Information and Technology. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to commend the Committee for being the first one in this Senate to make county visits. Indeed, the activities of this Committee have challenged many of us, hon. Senators, because they have really traversed the country. We keep on seeing the good work that they are doing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are two issues that I would like to discuss. First, unless we have a policy framework on how we are going to manage ECD and education programmes in all the 47 counties, we will not have given our children a sound foundation. Therefore, I expected in the Committee’s Report that they would have given us a way forward on what they would be proposing on what would be a sound policy. I would urge the Committee to further go and look at this report, so that they can come up with clear policies. In this policy, I would expect to see issues, especially on how our teachers can be trained well. In this country, you will only find that the teachers who are well trained are in private schools in Nairobi, like Riara Primary School. But you will find that a school in Baragoi and Samburu, which my sister, Sen. Lesuuda is very passionate about, is not even considered in the training of these teachers. You will find that in counties like Kisii, in a school in Bobasi called Rigoma, for example, we do not even have teachers who are trained to bring up our children in nurseries. It is essential that we have nurseries throughout our counties. I would expect that in this policy, perhaps, we would have children being trained in three levels of the ECD training, that is, intermediate, reception classes and then nursery. But you will find that in the rural areas many of our children just go to nursery. We forget that there are actually three levels of ECD training before a child goes to Standard One. Therefore, such a policy would be very important and uniform throughout the 47 counties. Hence, the question of marginalization in counties like Samburu, West Pokot, Kisii and Nyamira would be things of the past."
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