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    "id": 516880,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) F.I. Ali",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Fatuma Ibrahim Ali",
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    "content": "ranking. They strongly feel that the abolishment of ranking is to conceal their concerns and failures of the State in addressing the poor performance of the marginalized counties. Sometimes we feel that this decision is to conceal information of the ugly and dire situation of regions, schools and pupils who do not perform well. We have stopped ranking for this examination period, 2014 results, but what has it achieved? The only thing it has achieved is that we are feeling that we do not know which school has performed best in the public domain but the schools know which position they are. They know that maybe Alliance High School was the best. They know Kenya High was number five because all the students who performed the best are from those schools. It is an indirect way of ranking schools. The other thing is that we should demand for reinstatement of ranking. We should also demand from the national Government which has the mandate of education to use the result of ranking to address and reform those concerns that deny certain regions and schools good performance. It should not be to hide under the carpet and say that ranking is bad. Ranking is good. It is useful and it motivates parents and students. Where there is no ranking, then we are all dead. In the past when results were out, we used to see my county, Mandera and Wajir County at the bottom and leaders would converge quickly and ask “what do we do?” Now we do not know. We are not taking any interest because we assume that ranking has resolved certain pressure from leaders. I support this Motion of reinstating ranking. The Ministry of Education and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) should be held accountable for taking decisions that are not consultative. He has not consulted widely with stakeholders, parents and affected children. Sometimes the policy makers and people who want to reform systems should not be authoritarian to make decisions that affect an entire nation. I stand to support the Motion. Thank you."
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