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    "id": 514058,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Secondly, exam grading is used for administrative purposes as opposed to ranking which is used for competition. We have had so many fallacies and stories. People have been saying that parents are complaining that ranking has been removed. Why would a parent be complaining? The purpose of taking a child to school is to pass exams not to be ranked. We miss the point. I am referring to hon. Maanzo because he is my good friend. I also went to a school. Unfortunately that school in Ainabkoi Constituency because of poor facilities---Government has not been investing on facilities and so the students there are not doing very well as compared to students who go to Alliance High School and many other schools. There are differentials in facilities and teachers. The problem that we have with teachers is that all the good teachers want to be in towns and all the average teachers want to stay in the rural areas. So, what happens is that we then train children in the rural areas to become average and they are expected to compete with town children who have computers. Children in the rural areas have never seen computers and yet you are ranking them with children who school in town. That one you are comparing apples with oranges; not apples with apples. That is the reason we are saying that if ranking has to be there, it has to be holistic. Otherwise, we will be saying that physical education, Arts and spiritual education are not important. So, why do we have these teachers? Why do we not scrap these courses because students are not ranked on the basis of that; rather it is on the basis of exams? It is not holistic. We are not talking about a holistic person."
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