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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Diriye",
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        "legal_name": "Diriye Abdullahi Mohamed",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I was saying that the mean grade in that school is very low. The ratio of book to pupil was one to five. In the same county, we have a school called Wajir Excel Academy that had 25 pupils sitting for the KCPE in 2012. It had a mean grade of 320 marks. The ratio of book to pupil was one to one. A school that has a book to pupil ratio of one to one recorded a mean grade of 320 whereas in the same county, a school recorded a mean grade of 133 marks. There is a big disparity between 320 and 133. One of the main reasons is lack of books. So, the book to pupil ratio in the school that performs very well is one to one and the school that performs poorly is one to five. The main factor is that the pupils do not have enough text books, learning materials and tuition. I have also compared in Bomet County the best performing and the worst performing schools in relation to the availability of text books. A school named Kenibuburu, which had a mean grade of 178 marks and had a book to pupil ratio of one to six performed poorly. In the same Bomet County, we have Shelsea Academy, which scored a mean grade of 396 marks. The ratio of books to pupils was one to one. The availability of textbooks from the FPE programme is directly linked to school performance. Also in West Pokot, I compared the worst and best performing schools in KCPE. A school named Kaplong had a mean grade of 192. The ratio of books to pupils was one to seven. The best performing school in that county was Kapenguria Town View Academy which had a mean grade of 365 and the ratio of books to pupils was one to one. Where we have enough text books, the mean grade, performance in national examinations and the education standards are very good. Where we do not have enough books, the performance is very poor. In Wajir County, one carton of dustless chalk costs around Kshs9,000 whereas the normal chalks called Someni, cost Kshs3,000. So, this Kshs1,020 per child is not enough. From the explanation of how much the text books cost and how much a child will need, it is very clear that unless this money is increased threefold from the current Ksh1,020 to Kshs3,060, we are not going to improve the educational standards in our schools. Currently, the FPE programme just exists theoretically, but practically, there is no free The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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