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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say very few things because I had made some contribution last week. Let me start by saying that this Motion does not in any way intend to scrap the examination at Standard Eight in total. It is dealing with the issue of one-off examination process, where we examine people on one day and determine their lives with the examinations for that day. It is important to appreciate what it means when you examine 13 year old kids. In the case of our young girls, they could be taking the examinations while going through their monthly periods, and the outcome of their performance could be affected by that condition. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another point is pregnancy of young girls. It means that if a childâs education is discontinued because of pregnancy, she is unable to rejoin the education system and continue with her education. She has to kind of make another start. This Motion aims at encouraging the Government to embrace the principle of continuous assessment, where one is able to have results and continue to improve on his grades over a period, so that at the end of known time, oneâs grade can be given to him. It is important to note some figures. In the year 2003, when we got an additional enrolment of 1.2 million pupils, that was the year when the Free Primary Education (FPE) programme was started. Last year, the number of kids who did examinations at the primary level was 700,000. The number of those who joined Form One this year was 456,000, maybe, plus another 10 per cent. So, in essence, we lost well over 60 per cent of the children. The wastage level in this system is something we cannot allow to continue in our country. We are talking of 13 year-old children. It is important that you ask yourself how a country can term a child of 13 years a failure. If you ask me, it is not the child who will have failed but ourselves. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are many advantages in the system I am proposing. I have the results of a survey that has been done in this country, showing Kenya as having attained 4.2 years of schooling. In other words, all of us have gone beyond Standard Four by only two months. That is the average that is in this country because of the education system that we have. There are gains in the system I am proposing; if you allow pupils to remain in school longer, there will be many things that will come with it. There they will be many benefits, including saving on the health bill. Maternal mortality is also reduced. The percentage of citizens falling below the poverty line will also be reduced. The average duration in school will also be increased. The percentage of women who become mothers and leave school will reduce with more education. Even the marriage age is also increased once we increase the number of years in schooling. Even the age at which one has sex intercourse with education, again, we increase the number of years. The number of children in the family is also reduced with education. If you look at issues like use of mosquito nets, survey has shown that those who have been in school longer are able to appreciate the need for them, the need to take care of yourself, including use of condoms and the rest, which has an impact on the levels of HIV/AIDS scourge in our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to table some of the surveys that have been done in this country. This survey is talking about the number of years that we, as a country, have attained in school. It is at the rate of 4.2. When we compare ourselves with a country like Argentina at 8.8., A country like South Africa is at 6.1. Countries behind us are Sierra Leone, Malawi and Rwanda. All other countries are unable to get more years in school than ourselves. It is important to note that what we are talking about is not alien. Our next door neighbour; that is Rwanda, is actually at the peak in this process where children are allowed to go through schooling, assessments are done, but they are let out into the system after the Form Four Class."
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