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"content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, today one of the legacies I am most proud of is the fact that in the days that we did A-Levels at the famous Cardinal Otunga High School, we were ranked among the top schools. After that ranking, our headteacher called us and said: “You have conquered Kenya. Now go and conquer the world.” If we are here today, it is from that ranking. Yes, I have heard what has been said. Currently, we do not have a policy on ranking. However, that is what this House is for. I would wish to propose to my colleagues, including those who are against ranking that let us do it in a way that takes care of the disparities in our society. Ranking enables us to do a SWOT analysis. I have heard some people saying that if, for instance, you are in Alliance High School then you cannot be compared with somebody in a rural school. I have a student from my constituency who went to a secondary school where there was no laboratory. It is a school I only started four years ago. The student got an “A” in Maths, Physics, Biology and Chemistry. So, these are the realities. We cannot all be the same. As we stand today, parents want ranking. I am a parent and I want ranking. Teachers and their unions want ranking. If there is no policy in place, that is what this House is for. Let us put a policy which can rank rural schools differently from urban schools and private schools differently from public schools so that we will be able to identify the gaps that exist in our education system. Without ranking, we cannot identify these gaps. With those remarks, I beg to move."
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