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    "id": 514086,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we know of schools which force children out of schools if they do not attain a certain grade. This is merely because they will bring the ranking of the school down. In the end, we come out with products of rote learning. We cannot allow the ranking as it is. I had an amendment that was shot down, and I wonder why, where we must take into consideration all the factors. We should look at the infrastructure, laboratories, extra-curricular infrastructure, history of discipline and performance of the school. If any of us wants to take a child to a school which we think will perform best, we cannot go by a single performance. You will need to have the comprehensive character of the school. Therefore, I appeal to all colleagues that ranking, as provided in this Bill, is detrimental to our education system. If we have to get ranking, we should adopt a comprehensive ranking system that takes all considerations that categorize schools in terms of infrastructure and the teacher to student ratio as well as fees levied by each school. Ranking, as it is, is also against the poor. What happens in this country is that if a school starts to do well, people with money start getting their children to that school and, through the Parents Teachers Association (PTA), they increase school fees. Consequently, poor parents are forced to withdraw their children from such schools. A school that was previously absorbing children from a local area, once it starts performing will, you find that it is full of people from all other place except the local area, and all of them are well moneyed. You get to a situation---"
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